How well do you know your own organization? Assessing your need for Disaster Recovery should be an intensive examination that may even teach you some things you didn’t know about it. Because what you want to establish is the scope of a potential DR program, and scope is firmly tied to the fundamental aspects of…
Disaster Recovery Articles
With many years of professional IT experience, and training as a Certified Management Consultant, a Project Management Professional, a Professional Engineer and a Member, Business Continuity Institute, Steve Tower has the skills and abilities required to assist with even the most complex disaster recovery planning initiatives. Below, Steve discusses the necessary tools involved in setting up a disaster recovery plan and program.
An Equation That Will Assess the Value of Disaster Recovery
When assessing the value of a disaster recovery program for your organization, it is important to remember that DR is first and foremost an investment, because it involves upfront costs, ongoing costs, and a combination of capital and operating expenditures. Assessing an investment’s value typically involves some combination of payback period, ROI, internal rate of…
How Your Organization Can Determine the Value of Disaster Recovery
IT managers who intrinsically understand the value of a viable DR program are being constantly challenged by a difficult-to-answer question emanating from the executive suite: How much is a DR plan worth to the organization? This invariably leads to the corollary question: How can we quantify and determine how much to spend on DR?
How to Make Disaster Recovery Standards Work For You
Once you’ve located and understood the cache of disaster recovery standards – be they government mandates, industry regulations, international standards or credentialing organizations – it is up to you to determine how much of the material is applicable and useful to your organization.
A Guide To Understanding Disaster Recovery Standards
If you’re looking to build your first disaster recovery (DR) plan, or even start your first DR program, taking a look at established disaster recovery and business continuity (BC) standards can be a useful place to begin. However, navigating your way through the myriad of international and industry standards available online can be also difficult…