Following the enterprises' shift to virtualization, Symantec transformed data backup by also enabling backups in 100% virtualized environments with Backup Exec 2012 which allows both SMBs and large enterprises to have multiple backups in a single software. This innovation can better help companies with their disaster recovery and business continuity plans by protecting valuable private company data, Robles says.

"The features in Backup Exec 2012 are focused around three key themes which are important to SMBs: eliminating complexity, providing virtualizationcentric protection, and offering SMBs one product for seamless, cost-effective, and complete recovery," says Symantec regional technical director for Asia South Region, Raymond Goh.

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To have a better grasp of disaster recovery and business continuity plans, the relatively small players in the business industry can learn from the big ones. Globe Telecom, which was awarded by business certification body, BSI Group, with the Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) certification, has set plans to ensure on a regular basis the immediate activation of a disaster recovery structure in the event of any unprecedented circumstance. Through this, Globe is able to implement a multistage planning procedure that helps in further understanding an organization's needs on a corporate-wide level.

"BCMS ensures that we have a crisis management organization, and tested and maintained business continuity processes that will help the company rise above the disaster," says Soliman. Embedding the BCMS, a standard that emphasizes the formation and maintenance of a proper control framework within an organization, has been Globe Telecom's key in coming up with these planning strategies. Truly, both the internal policies and technologies from service providers, when put together, become a crucial element in having a well-founded disaster recovery structure. Despite knowing that putting up such reliable technologies can be a drain on the company's resources, Aguda still encourages other emerging companies to do the same and to put in place stringent policies to prepare for the unknown. "The company should reserve some of its budget for disaster recovery," he stresses. "It's all about methodology."