A sound disaster recovery / business continuity plan is essential to protect the well being of an organization. This cannot really be over emphasized... yet many enterprises still side step the issue or hold plans which are clearly out of date or inadequate.

Part of the reason for this is the complexity of the task. This is not helped by some vendors selling planning products which are themselves extremely difficult to master.

There is now, however, a growing trend to address this head on: to use a quality disaster recovery template with forms and guide to create the plan directly. Minimum fuss, minumum complexity, maximum productivity... and a top quality plan at the end.