Category: Disaster Recovery Planning and Design

As you begin to undertake your disaster recovery planning, you may start to wonder what you’re actually planning for. What kind of disaster could really do that much damage? If you live near the shore, perhaps you could encounter problems from a serious storm like Hurricane Sandy. If you live in the Midwest, you could…

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…

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…

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…

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…