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Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference?

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When a hurricane leads to widespread power outages, flooding, and workforce disruption, for example, an effective disaster recovery plan ensures that IT systems remain up and running and that operations can come back online as soon as possible. According to SANS Institute, the number of ransomware cases increased by nearly 73% in 2023.

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Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference?

Pure Storage

When a regional storm makes travel difficult and causes short-term power outages, for example, an effective business continuity plan will have already laid out the potential impact, measures to mitigate associated problems, and a strategy for communicating with employees, vendors, customers, and other stakeholders.