Question

How have the events of 9/11/2001 influenced Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)?

Answer 1

The disaster of 9/11/2001 was one of horrific terrorist attack on World Trade Center in the United States in 21st century. Its was a series of four attacks carries out by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda. Almost 3000 people's lives were taken, 6000 were injured and around $10 billion worth of infrastructure and property was damaged in a few hours.

The 9/11 attacks were a changing point for IT executives. Before 9/11, disaster recovery was a critical part of any business technology strategy according to IT executive or manager of any data center. But post 9/11, disaster recovery plans got their new meaning. Now, it was not just to protect data centers, but also quickly and immediately retrieve and carry on the operations in the disasters.

This taught the lesson that real-time backups which are a little bit costly than data backups on tapes which are moved elsewhere will guarantee that the switching over to replicated systems will be exactly the same as they want. The real-time data backup at secondary data centers were grasp by many of the large and technically efficient IT firms in Worlds Trade Center. This helped in the recovery of mainframe and back-office operations but other applications were not recreated, This taught another lesson to IT businesses that in the disaster recovery plan which server and application must be present in data centers.

The modern cloud storage is leading because of the major disasters said by Vinit Jain, CEO and co-founder of cloud storage company Egnyte. Due to the attacks multiple data backups was more beneficial than the single data backups. Cybersecurity and increasing data security from customer topics were brought into minds.