A single employee cannot access her email, and while this small incident seems of little significance, it could be just the tip of the iceberg, foreshadowing an impending disaster. The ability to mitigate the effect of a large-scale catastrophe requires that a business be aware of the indicators before the full impact is felt. The type of indicators…
Author: Steve Tower
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.
Change and Project Management Implications on the DR Plan
Anytime a business changes, tweaks, enhances or makes any major modifications to its current environment, it must look at the implications that this will have on its Disaster Recovery Plan, particularly if the applications are set up at a recovery site. The most effective way to do this is to build in checkpoints along the…
Availability, Capacity and Configuration of Disaster Recovery
Availability, Capacity and Configuration are areas that all IT organizations are responsible for. Each of these areas relates directly to a Disaster Recovery Plan and it is important to consider each in the implementation and maintenance of this plan.
Disaster Recovery Planning: How to Create Efficiencies with Existing Artifacts
Most organizations already store information needed to implement a Disaster Recovery Plan somewhere in their databases, documents and spreadsheets. The process of Artifact Mapping allows an organization to reuse, combine and repurpose current information in the development of a Disaster Recover Strategy. There are pockets of information just sitting out there on an IT server…
Incident & Problem Management
The ability to carry out a successful Disaster Recovery Plan depends on how well an organization manages a particular problem. Incident management is the front-end “canary in the coalmine”; it detects if something has the potential to turn a minor threat into a full-blown disaster.