IBM Director Gives Expert Advice for Contingency Planning
Don DeMarco, Director, IBM Business Continuity and Recovery Services discusses the role of IT in business continuity strategies and recalls his experiences following the September 11 attacks.
by Glen Kunene, Senior Editor
January 15, 2002
Don DeMarco, IBM Director
s companies become more and more dependent on information, the business-continuity tolerance for information loss becomes less and less, particularly in e-business, says Don DeMarco, Director, IBM Business Continuity and Recovery Services. It's a lesson learned from the Y2K compliance issue and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) in recent years. Although recovery management (maintaining an IT-based contingency plan and IT recovery plan) is an element of the systems management discipline, DeMarco explains that "the decision as to the acceptable amount of risk for information loss must come from upper management."
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Don DeMarco, IBM Director
s companies become more and more dependent on information, the business-continuity tolerance for information loss becomes less and less, particularly in e-business, says Don DeMarco, Director, IBM Business Continuity and Recovery Services. It's a lesson learned from the Y2K compliance issue and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) in recent years. Although recovery management (maintaining an IT-based contingency plan and IT recovery plan) is an element of the systems management discipline, DeMarco explains that "the decision as to the acceptable amount of risk for information loss must come from upper management."
