IT disaster recovery project outline
IT disaster recovery	
Deployment scheduled: to be undertaken in three stages over the period March 2011 to December 2011.
Project objective: to create a real‑time replica of critical business applications and data, effectively creating a ‘hot’ disaster recovery site, to automate the recovery of critical business processes.
Benefits:
•	Automation of the recovery of critical business processes following a disaster in the priority determined by the business.
•	Establish an architecture that enables regular testing of the disaster recovery process.
•	Reduce the amount of downtime currently used for scheduled maintenance.
Project status: project is NOT YET COMMENCED
Budget summary: expenditure in 2010‑11 is $300,000 (capital); expenditure in 2011‑12 $1.6 million (capital) $350,000 (ongoing annual operational).	

	Capital budget	Operating budget	Total	
Total project budget allocated	$1.9 million		$1.9 million	
Ongoing annual operational costs		$0.350 million	$0.350 million 
(annual)