Any disaster recovery plan must ensure that firms can maintain contact with their employees, it has been claimed.
According to complex hosting services provider WTS, organisations do not have to take the risk that critical hardware will fail.
Chief technology officer at the group Richard Dolewski commented: "The single point of failure of most every IT infrastructure scenario is the underlying fact that companies still hope that in an actual disaster, their staff will be available to travel to their recovery site and execute their recovery."
He went on to say that whatever business continuity plan firms employ, whether they are tape backups, vaulting, data replication or high availability-based solutions, if staff are unavailable, data will not be recovered.
Earlier this week, IT security services provider Quantum claimed replication technology enables centralisation of all tape operations in data centers, thereby improving disaster recovery provision.
The group added that improving business continuity is increasingly important in the current economic climate.