IT Disaster Recovery Preparedness Council Founded

The mission of the new IT Disaster Recovery Preparedness (DRP) Council, formed by IT business, government and academic leaders, is to increase DR Preparedness awareness, and improve DR practices.

To help achieve that goal the council has developed an online IT Disaster Recovery Preparedness Benchmark survey. The survey is designed to give BC, DR, compliance audit and risk management professionals a measure of their own preparedness in recovering critical IT systems running in virtual environments.

Founding Members of the council include:

• Steve Kahan, council chairman, CMO, PHD Virtual
• Dave Simpson, senior analyst, 451 Group
• Bilal Hashmi, senior systems engineer, Verizon
• Michael Sink, director, data center technologies, University of South Florida
• Steve Lambropoulos, University of South Florida
• Darren Hirons, principal systems engineer National Health System, UK
• Trystan Trenberth, CEO and MD, Trenberth, Ltd.
• Carlos Escapa, council research director, GM disaster recovery solutions, PHD Virtual
• Anita DuBose, council research director, PHD Virtual