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Factors Influencing the Success of the Disaster Recovery Planning Process: A Conceptual Paper

Leong Lai Hoong 

Faculty of Management 

Multimedia University 

Selangor, Malaysia 

leong.lai.hoong08@mmu.edu.my

Govindan Marthandan 

Faculty of Management 

Multimedia University 

Selangor, Malaysia 

g.marthandan@mmu.edu.my

Abstract—Disaster recovery planning (DRP) is an IT process that considers the mitigation of risk in the IT department and put in place the procedure to recover the IT systems in the event of outages. This paper reviews the researches conducted on the topic of DRP and business continuity management (BCM). It explains the factors inherent in DRP and BCM processes and how these factors could be incorporated into an updated framework and presents an illustrative framework for an effective and successful DRP and BCM implementation. 

Keywords- disaster recovery planning (DRP); business continuity management (BCM); IT process; contingency planning.

I. INTRODUCTION 

         Disaster recovery planning (DRP) is one of the IT processes started in the 1960’s in conjunction with the growth of the electronic data processing capability in an organization. It was during the era of the mainframe machines to facilitate the organization in automating some human tasks [1]. People are aware of the criticality of the mainframe functions, data captured and information provided, therefore the development of DRP to ensure that there are proper backup of data and able to restore when there are any losses of facility in the future. From non-IT perspective, a DRP could also mean the planning and recovering of the businesses, government functions and general economic activities in an area impacted by natural or man-made disaster. Such as, most of the organizations in the World Trade Centre of United States of America had a successful DRP and as a result they are able to relocate to alternate premises to continue their business.

       DRP evolved over the years and new buzz words emerged to complement the DRP function in the 1990’s, such as, the business continuity management (BCM) [2], Contingency Planning and IT service continuity management [3]. 

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