Downtime is no longer hypothetical. Ransomware, supply chain attacks, cloud outages, power failures, and natural disasters can bring even well-funded IT organizations to their knees — and the consequences go far beyond an inconvenient afternoon. Financial losses, regulatory penalties, reputational damage, and in public-sector environments, real risks to public safety.

The uncomfortable truth? Most organizations are not as resilient as they think. In a recent assessment of a large transportation agency, ANM discovered that one-third of their production systems — including critical file servers — had zero data protection in place. Nobody realized it until a formal audit surfaced the gap. That agency would not have survived weeks without those systems.
This post captures the key insights from ANM’s Director of Data Center & Cloud, David Abbott, shared during a recent webinar on next-generation disaster recovery. Whether you are just getting started or looking to mature an existing DR program, the framework below gives you a practical, incremental path forward.