An increasingly mobile workforce, an explosion in the amount of data the average organisation needs to manage, and growing regulatory pressures are all forcing South African organisations to rethink their traditional approaches to disaster recovery and business continuity planning.

The old approach of throwing hardware at the challenges of recovery and resilience is giving way to the more strategic use of automated tools and services from third-party providers. With IT budgets under pressure, even conservative large companies are turning to solutions such as cloud computing and outsourcing to contain their spending on disaster recovery infrastructure.