Review these trends in IT disaster recovery planning and outsourcing

1. Organizations should lay out a five-year plan with a recovery time objective that is ________, according to Bill Hughes, director of consulting services at SunGard Availability Services LP.

	Less than two hours
	Going to improve over time
	The same as what you have now

2. Of the 50% to 70% of organizations that develop IT disaster recovery plans, fewer than ____ actually test those plans.

	One quarter
	One third
	One half

3. True or false: According to Jon Toigo, CEO of Toigo Partners International, half of disaster recovery planners polled haven't told anybody that a DR plan exists in their organization.

	True
	False

4. The recession is putting a squeeze on budgets for outsourcing disaster recovery services. As such, CIOs are turning to _________ to reduce floor space at their leased recovery sites, according to providers of IT disaster recovery services.

	Server virtualization
	Cloud computing
	Contract renegotiation

5. How do current budget constraints change IT disaster recovery discussions with other parts of the business?

	They don't -- IT should proceed as it has before.
	It makes it more important to involve other business departments.
	It makes it less important to involve other business departments.

6. How are companies using cloud computing for IT disaster recovery outsourcing, according to Sam Gross, vice president of global outsourcing technology solutions at Unisys Corp.?

	They're increasing the number of licensees with access to DR applications.
	They're moving mission-critical applications to a cloud environment.
	They're creating carbon copies of applications.

7. Organizations are increasingly moving from tape to disk-based backup. Dave Russell, a research vice president at Gartner Inc. who specializes in storage management software, said he has seen the percentage of enterprises backing up directly to tape drop from 63% to ___ over the past four years.

	44%
	34%
	24%

8. The test of an IT disaster recovery plan came fast and furiously last year for Alliant Energy Corp., a Madison, Wis.-based gas and electric company, when flood waters swept over its Cedar Rapids, Iowa, territory. What technology, not touted as a big piece of the IT disaster recovery plan, came to the rescue?

	Voice over Internet Protocol
	Desktop virtualization
	Duplication services


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