DO YOU HAVE A DR PLAN?
Why Don't you have a DR Plan?
NOT A PRIORITY / NO TIME
TOO EXPENSIVE
DON’T KNOW HOW
What is the current state of your DR Plan?
THINGS HAVE CHANGED IN MY ORGANIZATION, BUT DOES MY PLAN NEED CHANGES TOO?
I KNOW IT’S OUT-OF-DATE. IT MAY NEED AN OVERHAUL!
I’M NEW TO THIS. HOW DO I FIND OUT WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH THE PLAN?
What's Your Disaster Recovery Plan?
The buck stops here. How do you feel when the lights first go out? Relief? An amusing distraction from the daily grind? In the dark office, you slowly come to realize that the issue is more serious. People are looking for direction. What is going on? Should I go home? The lights stay out. There must be a calm way to deal with this. Where’s your operations manager? Then the lights go back on; your PC’s rebooting. Phew! Catastrophe averted! Luckily, no one is hurt and there is no major damage. Business-as-usual within an hour!
It could have been worse. It was just a warning shot across the bow. No good back-up process; no written plan of attack. I’ve been there. Actually, I was the guy in-charge when the lights went out on August 14, 2003. The staff scurried home; the business shut down. Were other firms still working? We certainly weren’t, and it wouldn’t be good if we were on our own. That was the uncomfortable issue, to say the least. After that, I learned; my business learned. We were not going to be last, or caught unprepared again; we were going to have an option!
Our answer was to have a plan...
Works Cited
- PricewaterhouseCoopers: Cited in http://www.atlantic-it.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Atlantic-IT_v10n4.pdf
- Gartner: Cited in http://www.atlantic-it.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Atlantic-IT_v10n4.pdf
- Symantec: http://img2.insight.com/graphics/au/brands/symantec/better-backup-better-disaster-recovery.pdf
- Established from statistics provided by: http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/061.nsf/eng/02804.html
- Established from statistics provided by: http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/061.nsf/eng/02804.html