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Disaster Recovery organization says Toronto needs to prepare

by Briony Smith

The Toronto-based not-for-profit Disaster Recovery Information Exchange has called for the businesses, government, and emergency services of Toronto to band together to provide a disaster-proof front against catastrophes, but some local IT vendors, while enamored of the idea, are skeptical of its feasibility.

“We’ve watched with horror and interest the events in New York, Madrid, and London where it’s not just the cities responding, but the critical infrastructure organizations and people. As we watched, we wondered, ‘Would Toronto respond well?’” said Michael Smith, president of business continuity consulting firm ReadySmith and co-chair of the Toronto Incident Management Exercise (TIME) initiative.

Storagepipe Solutions’ president and CEO Steven Rodin has seen this lack of preparedness during in his tenure running his online backup company. “Many don’t have a business continuity plan or full data recovery plan in place,” he said.

Rodin said that TIME’s goal of raising awareness about the importance of a solid business continuity plan is a good one, and that Toronto could, as a whole, really benefit from common ground rules and targets when it comes to disaster recovery. “But there are some aspects of disaster recovery that are tailored to specific institutions, so there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution,” said Rodin

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Disaster recovery organization says Toronto needs to prepare