1. How IT Leaders can Best Plan for Disaster
2. Gearing IT for the Rains: What CIOs Need to Know
3. How To Improve Disaster Recovery Preparedness
4. How the Cloud Democratizes and Complicates Disaster Recovery
5. Critical Trends in IT Business Continuity
6. How to Start a Business Continuity Program
7. 3 More Tabletop Exercises for Business Continuity
Showing posts with label disaster recovery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disaster recovery. Show all posts
Monday, 26 November 2012
Monday, 22 October 2012
How To Improve Disaster Recovery Preparedness
If you woke up tomorrow and ran a marathon, how would you fare? It's highly doubtful that you would successfully run the 26.2 miles without months of training, drills, and exercises. The same is true for disaster recovery (DR): The chance that you could successfully recover IT operations without having exercised your DR plans on a regular basis is slim at best.
The chance that you could successfully recover and meet your recovery objectives is zero. Yet Forrester finds that exercising DR plans is one area in which many organizations continue to fall short.
Although most enterprises claim they conduct a full exercise of their DR plans at least once per year, anecdotal evidence suggests that the majority of these exercises are not comprehensive and thorough; enterprises often just exercise a portion of the plan or a subset of applications. Indeed, many of the organizations Forrester has spoken with know that they need to improve their DR exercise program, but face barriers such as a lack of executive support, limited employee resources, and a fear of interrupting business processes.
If this sounds all too familiar, consider the following 10 best practices for updating and improving your current DR exercise program:
1. Define Specific Exercise Objectives Upfront
2. Include Business Stakeholders
3. Rotate Staff Responsibilities
4. Develop Specific Risk Scenarios For Your Exercises
5. Run Joint Exercises With Business Continuity (BC) Teams
6. Vary Exercise Types From Technical Tests to Walk-Throughs
7. Make Sure to Test All IT Infrastructure Concurrently at Least Once Per Year
8. Identify Members for the Core DR Response Team
9. Learn From Your Mistakes
10. Report Results to Stakeholders
Friday, 19 October 2012
10 Enterprise Cloud Storage Options
The topic of cloud storage stirs debate in even the sanest of conversations. But, even the most anti-cloud naysayer will agree that the cloud is an excellent choice as a disaster recovery (DR) solution. Providers understand that their clients need security, redundancy and reliability. Cloud storage companies also know that there is a lot of cloud-based fear, and most offer a staged approach to moving to cloud storage, from archive to online backup to live storage.
Many providers sell their services as a "replace the tape" strategy for businesses. And, they make it very enticing to do so by comparing costs, hassles and reliability numbers. Cloud-based backup and storage are compelling when you put pencil to paper and see the numbers for yourself.
This list of 10 cloud storage providers will give you a sense of some of the key players and their options for cloud-based storage. The list is in no particular order.
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