What To Do When Disaster Strkes
A natural or man-made disaster can strike anywhere, anytime, with ruthless and devastating results - that’s the awful essence of a disaster. Hurricane Katrina and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks loom large in the collective memory for the magnitude of their destruction, but smaller-scale, localized disasters happen all the time: a fire in a building, human error that erases a server, a power outage in a town. Each can wreck a business in minutes and is much more likely to happen than a terrorist attack or a hurricane. As gloomy as those scenarios may be, the name of the game for companies is “prepare for the worst; hope for the best.” Companies can minimize the worst possible disruptions to their businesses and the lives of their employees by creating disaster recovery and business continuity plans. Such plans are not just for large and well-connected companies, but for small and midmarket companies as well. These plans can protect company data and applications, and they can have a company back in business within 48 hours or less after a disaster. That’s where Janco’s Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Template comes into play. The Templates provice the expertise to help companies craft their plans and then flesh out those plans with technology solutions.
What is a Disaster?
(Computerworld) Disaster planning traditionally focuses on three variables: data center replication, building design and backups. Analysts have maintained for years that the most common disaster is outright hardware failure because of faulty data center design, for instance, when the emergency power off button is hit, either accidentally or on purpose. Yet, for many enterprises throughout the U.S., the reality is that recovery plans should be customized for whichever type of major disaster is most likely to occur in any given area. There are really two kinds of disasters that can affect your data center, says the executive director of The Uptime Institute in Santa Fe, N.M. Those that do not affect your data center directly but do affect your region. Another is a disaster that affects your building directly; you will not recover until you recover the building. One of the most important decisions, but one that is often given little thought, is where to put the data center.
Cyber Attacks Can Impact Your Disaster Plan
A cyber attack reported last week by one of the federal government’s nuclear weapons laboratories may have originated in China, according to a confidential memorandum distributed Wednesday to public and private security officials by the Department of Homeland Security. Security researchers said the memorandum, which was obtained by The New York Times from an executive at a private company, included a list of Web and Internet addresses that were linked to locations in China. However, they noted that such links did not prove that the Chinese government or Chinese citizens were involved in the attacks. In the past, intruders have compromised computers in China and then used them to disguise their true location. Officials at the lab, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, said the attacks did not compromise classified information, though they acknowledged that they were still working to understand the full extent of the intrusion. - more info
Disaster Recovery and Compliance
Disaster recovery and remote backup strategies need to take into account not just technical issues, but also how to implement those strategies within the letter and spirit of applicable legislation. CFOs and CIOs need to take care that a seemingly simple plan for disaster recovery does not in turn create a potential legal disaster. A compliance-based managed services provider (CMSP) can reduce risk and cost for many businesses.
How minimize your backup exposure
Are you taking the right steps, or could you reduce your backup window further? Are you setting the right data protection goals? Have you established the best benchmarks? How can you optimize your backup model to meet your SLA s? Have you projected your data growth accurately? Will your technology fit all your needs? To accomplish this you should: Set data protection goals based on buisness needs Establish performance benchmarks Optimize backup performance to exceed your benchmarks Forecast the capacity needs for both hardware and software Build a modular data protection architecture
What Should a Data Center Disaster Plan Have
What should a Data Center Disaster Plan Have? Janco has found that a go Disaster Recovery Plan should have: A section that describes the strategy and procedures for recovering Data Center processing of applications should a disaster substantially disrupt operations. The disaster recovery plan should ben organized into three parts: the main body which provides a general description of the disaster recovery strategy and program, the appendices provide detailed information for conducting the recovery, and the attachments provide supplemental information. The main body is public information and may be freely distributed; the appendices and attachments contain sensitive information that is restricted to the individuals responsible for recovering Data Center operations. The appendices and attachments must be destroyed when updated versions are received. The plan is frequently updated to reflect current hardware, software, procedures, applications, and staffing. Revisions are distributed to the disaster recovery team members at least twice a year following the disaster recovery tests.
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What Telephone Service Will You Have After the Disaster
The telephone industry is facing a very interesting quandary. On one hand, all-fiber builds offer elegant solutions and robust triple- and quadruple-play possibilities. Verizon clearly is opting for this approach. However, a good deal of money can be made by leveraging existing copper, though the resulting service platforms are more limited. AT&T is mixing its approach. The company released interesting results about its U-Verse fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) deployment at the Merrill Lynch Communications Services Forum this week. The company expects weekly customer additions to increase from 12,000 to 40,000 by the end of the week. That wasn’t the only number of note. John Stankey, the president of the company’s telecom operations said 60 percent of the new video customers are coming from cable operators, a percentage that exceeds expectations.
Vista Automatic Re-boots Adds Complexity to Disaster Recovery
In the Vista environment Disaster plan need to take into account security and the automatic reboot processes. No longer is the user in control of what happens when and wither it can be postponed. Image the situation where you have to get a mission critical system back in operation and you restore point is before the last one of these automatic updates. The problem is more complex as enterprises slowly move away from IT and Business alignment towards IT and Business convergence. Today, with the dependence of business operations on Information Technology and the slow acceptance of Vista as the operating system of choice this will become a more critical problem. Appropriately Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity need to be updated to reflect this new dependence.
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