Disaster Recovery isn't just for big business.

Many large businesses and government agencies are required to have a Disaster Recovery plan in the event of a real natural disaster.

And there are good reasons, Business must continue after a disaster.

There are many different types of Disaster Recovery, some plans are more aggressive than others.

The Business Continuity Plan or Disaster Recovery Plan, which comes first.

The Business Continuity Plan comes first. This plan is specifically designed around deciding what is critical to business operations. Such as application dependancy, business processes, vendor dependency, etc... It will encompass alot more than what the IT disaster recovery plan will include.

The development of a Disaster Recovery plan will draw on information gathered by the Business Continuity Plan, and map business processes to business systems.

Citrix MetaFrame can greatly enhance disaster recovery and provide in line real time DR in the event of a disaster.

Designing a Citrix Server Farm to span 2 or more physical sites and load balancing applications in the multi-site Farm will in effect provide real time redunancy, that if designed right will be a big part of your disaster recovery.