When businesses search for the right recovery site to meet their needs, there are a variety of factors to take into consideration. Disaster recovery efforts are nothing short of demanding, but the right recovery site can make the process quite a bit easier. Before you pick a site (that you think meets your needs), make…
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.
Don’t Underestimate the Importance of any One System in DR
The aftermath of disasters are always full of glitches when it comes to recovery, but a solid recovery plan can often help prevent costly errors. As you begin to plan for an outage or a more serious disaster, though, there’s one essential mistake you may want to avoid: underestimating the importance of any given system…
Don’t Let a Key System Fall Through the Cracks – 3 Items to Check Off on Your Systems List
Without a plan to get back on track after disaster, your IT department is just going to be guessing at which systems you have to recover and which technological components (like hardware devices) must be up and running to support those systems. A good systems list can help you take the guesswork out and reboot…
What is Priority for You in Disaster Recovery? Rank Now, so You Can be Quick Later
Deciding which systems get the priority treatment after a disaster can be difficult. After all, how do you decide whether accounting has everything they need first or your call center gets the applications running first? In most disaster situations, users have one view on what the priorities should be while the IT department has an…
How Much Should You Invest In Disaster Recovery Planning?
Fire. Flood. Power Outage. Terrorist Attack. Street Protests. Issues like these lead to two things for your business: downtime and lost revenue. Neither is good for the bottom line, but with a solid disaster recovery plan in place, your company can limit the fallout. But how much is that going to cost? Investing in DR…