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Archived IT - DR Articles
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13 May 2013
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Another Active Hurricane Season Expected in 2013 [31053]
Risk Management, May 13th, 2013
"With the start of the Atlantic hurricane season only two weeks away, experts across the board are predicting another active season. Today, AccuWeather.com released its findings calling for 16 named tropical storms, eight hurricanes and four major hurricanes. They expect three hurricanes to make landfall in the United States. These numbers are all slight increases over the average numbers recorded by NOAA from 1981-2010 and are comparable to last year's activity..."
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13 May 2013
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The Ten Commandments of Disaster Recovery [31054]
CIO Insight, May 13th, 2013
"How much can a flawed disaster recovery and business continuity plan cost you? Try an average of $90,000 for every hour of downtime among corporations, according to Strategic Research. Whether we're talking a hurricane, flood, terrorism or simply a loss of power, CIOs must consider every worst-case scenario and come up with a comprehensive failover and response strategy. In fact, the survival rate for companies without a disaster recovery plan is less than 10 percent..."
- Thou Shalt Analyze Single Points of Failure
- Thou Shalt Keep Updated Notification Trees
- Thou Shalt Remain Aware of Current Events
- Thou Shalt Consider Every Possible Disruption
- Thou Shalt Document the Recovery Process
- Thou Shalt Centralize Information.
- Thou Shalt Create Test Plans and Scripts.
- Thou Shalt Retest Regularly
- Thou Shalt Perform Comprehensive Recovery and Business Continuity Testing.
- Thou Shalt Define Metrics and Distribute 'Scores.'
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06 May 2013
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Hurricane Sandy Demonstrates Value of Multiple, Active Data Centers [30949]
Information Management, May 5th, 2013
"If you weren't sure about the impact of disasters on business operations a year ago, you should be now.
"This past fall, Hurricane Sandy provided lessons for all of us and demonstrated the value of good disaster recovery and business continuity plans," said Ron DeCicco, Chief Executive Officer, of Pershing, ... at the SIFMA OPS 2013 event in Florida.."
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06 May 2013
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IT Disaster Recovery Plan Best Practices: Starting from Scratch [30950]
Business 2 Community, May 7th, 2013
"The survival of your enterprise depends heavily on an IT disaster recovery plan. Companies weather all sorts of difficulties, from a slow economy to staffing troubles to market fluctuations. A disaster is one thing that can put the breaks on hard; potentially no part of your organization will survive without a plan. While a comprehensive initiative set up beforehand can be effective, the days and months following an event can be a time of reflection and forward looking.
A hard look at your best practices involves several steps..."
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22 Apr 2013
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How to Conduct an "End-to-End" Disaster Recovery Exercise in Real Time [30476]
Disaster Recovery Journal, April 3rd, 2013
"Many times organizations conduct traditional disaster recovery exercises where testing is done in silos, and the scope is limited and restricted only to host level recovery of individual systems. With growing technology changes and globalization trends, the intricacy and interdependencies of applications have become more complex in recent years, and major applications are spread across multiple locations and multiple servers. In this scenario, a traditional recovery exercise focusing on server (host) level recovery is not going to adequately ensure the complete recovery of the application without any inconsistencies among various interdependent subcomponents..."
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18 Mar 2013
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Business continuity benefits growth too [30278]
Supply Mangement, March 20th, 2013
"Companies have been urged to implement business continuity strategies to strengthen their ability to respond to opportunities as well as deal with threats.
The British Standards Institution (BSI) says there is 'huge potential' for organisations to benefit from business continuity management (BCM) a risk mitigation tool to ensure the continued operation of a business if faced with unexpected events and adversity..."
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