Are conventional recovery timeframes of 24 or 48 hours simply too long to meet your current business availability requirements?

Are your contingency planning initiatives meant to really protect the business or simply to satisfy audit or management concerns?

Are all of your backup files synchronized between all applications, all platforms and all locations?

Can you really restore all backup data in the time allowed by your recovery time objective?

Have you ever tested all applications and are your business personnel willing to guarantee that all applications can be restored correctly?

Are your business personnel ready to wait 24 or 48 hours for their systems to return and do they know what to do while they’re waiting?

Does your planned recovery time include the time it will take for management to really "pull the trigger" and declare a disaster?

Can you really afford to lose the data from the last back-up... do you have plans to reconstruct it or will it be lost forever... have your business personnel ever actually reconstructed it?

Does management really understand the extent of your recoverability and exactly what won’t be recovered?

Have your recovery architectures significantly improved over the past few years or are you retesting the same old things?

Do you feel that you are paying more than you should for your recovery capabilities?