Generally, disaster recovery is good business, and helps to ensure business investments are protected, and clients continue to have access to services. DR also helps providers to honor their service level agreements (SLA) by preventing potentially catastrophic problems befalling operations. By planning and practicing disaster recovery, employees and the company will remain calm and work together to return operations back to normal. Disaster recovery has the following specific benefits.
Minimizes Interruptions - Many threats can slow or even bring services down. DRPs prepare teams and reduce the negative impacts of interruptions by getting services back up quickly.
Prevents and Limits Damages - DRPs help teams think through potential threats and prepare accordingly. Timely and directed responses to disasters can limit damage and prevent spreading to other critical areas causing more damages.
Empowers and Builds Employee Confidence - Preparation in the face of emergency helps combat stress levels, and makes a higher functioning team thanks to foresight. Disaster recovery plans help to prepare and organize employees in response to disaster so that they know exactly what to do and when.
Service Restoration - DR is intent on restoring an organization to full service functionality from the worst setbacks. Using a metrics defined DRP, teams can systematically work towards anticipating threats and contingencies, and reduce their recovery time objective (RTO), the allowable time from service failure to restoration.