Category: Disaster Recovery Planning and Design

What is Tiering? Tiering is the most efficient approach to IT disaster recovery. It refers to a staged system recovery based on a pre-determined sequence of steps, or tiers. Each tier represents a different level of prioritization for the most important functions of your business, as well as the most important IT functions. The highest…

Owning a small business these days is a bit like performing in the circus. Some days it feels as if you’re juggling chainsaws just to stay on top of things. Our days are full, and sometimes, important longer-term tasks get put aside, things like preparing your organization for a major IT disaster. The good news…

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…

It is difficult to determine how likely or frequently disaster will befall any particular organization. Because there are many uncontrollable variables at play in any given situation, nothing short of clairvoyance can provide a firm answer to questions like: “When will the next disaster occur?” or “How often will a specific event cause an issue?”

Planning for disaster in the business world is just like planning for disaster in any other sense – if you leave it until “time-of-disaster”, things are not likely to go smoothly. If, on the other hand, you’ve planned ahead, kept your strategy current and usable, and ensured everyone involved knows their role, then getting things…