The Internet is becoming a central, pervasive direction in continuity planning, as it has for many other functional areas of organizations. This change enables new levels of capability, supplying a collaborative environment to a wide group of planners and contributors. Everyone involved is empowered through all phases of their processes, using the Internet paradigm embraced by so many other parts of the organization.

The best software now fully embraces the Internet. This change is typical of technology, periodically undergoing generational change affecting everything that comes later. Examples are the shifts from flat file to relational databases, mini to microprocessors, and client-server to n-tiered systems development. Entire industries and enormous companies rise (e.g., Microsoft, Intel) and fall (e.g., DEC, Worldcomm) when these types of changes occur.  Continuity planning is no different.

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This article appears in Data Management, Storage & Security Review 2005