Most Asia-Pacific small and medium-sized companies unprepared for disaster recovery

According to Dr. Goh Moh Heng, executive director of Disaster Recovery Institute Asia, Asia-Pacific countries need to rethink their business continuity, backup and risk management plans to make them more stringent. Goh’s comments were reported by INQ7.

“Asia is not that prepared for disasters,” said Goh. “It’s not just about backup and storage anymore. Most Asian organisations just backup their data on tapes and then store them at an offsite location, but when it comes to recovering their operations, they simply cannot do it.”

INQ7 reports that ‘Goh made an exception for big enterprises but stressed that small- to medium-sized businesses are still in the dark about disaster recovery.’

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•Date: 19th October 2004 • Region: Asia Pacific •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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