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Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity News
Expensive weather and climate disasters in the United States
February 2nd, 2012
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans need to consider natural weather and events. The effects that natural events have on the environment directly and indirectly may be harmful to people. Forest fires and volcanoes harm air quality. Hurricanes and floods can contaminate water supplies and damage wastewater facilities. Any of these can spread contaminated materials into the environment.
The United States set a record with 12 separate billion-dollar weather/climate disasters in 2011, with an aggregate damage total of approximately $52 billion, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That is just continuing the trend of the past 30 years.
These incidents have prompted many organizations to reconsider the human element during a crisis or major news event and evaluate how they communicate with employees, suppliers, investors and customers. Emergency and mass notification systems are designed to help organizations communicate to stakeholders during an incident or disruption. However, in response to the high occurrence of prominent disasters in recent years, the marketplace has been flooded with products to address emergency and mass notification needs. The need to diligently evaluate vendors is critical to ensure that services will meet an organization's specific requirements.
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Disaster Life Cycle
January 20th, 2012
A business disruption has a life cycle; it starts small and could potentially become a disaster of epic proportion, depending on its duration. The longer the duration, the greater the disruption to your business. Your organizations response should shift as an incident evolves from threat to emergency to crisis to disaster. Its one thing to say access to contract data isnt essential for a day or two, but what about a week or two? This is why its important to protect more than just data. Now that you know what processes are critical to the operation of your business, you can consider threats according to their impact on those critical processes.
To help you mitigate impact to your core processes, your plan should address three key phases:
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- Business Continuity Response - these are the steps you take immediately to sustain your core processes, your primary business priorities
- Disaster Recovery Response - these are the steps you take to extend your core processes indefinitely and address your secondary priorities
- Restoration Planning Response - these are the steps you take to restore your business to its pre
-incident level
DRP for virtual data centers
January 8th, 2012
Protecting application data from disasters is critical to keeping businesses up and running. Yet traditional disaster recovery solutions were never intended to address the needs of today's virtualized data center.
As a result, the cost and complexity of using traditional disaster recovery products to address data replication needs in highly virtualized environments forces many organizations to forego disaster recovery altogether.
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Business continuity management will minimise business interruptions
December 14th, 2011
In addition to this, it is integral for managers to devise business continuity plans to deal with the threats identified by setting out what needs to be done should a certain event occur.
And although not possible to avoid all risks, business continuity management (BCM) can minimise the disruption to a business to a great extend, protecting its share price, stakeholder relations, and reputation, among others.
With that said, BCM is a critical strategic function that cannot be neglected by any organisation whatsoever.
Still, managers often neglect charting a strategic course for their company's future survival, which in itself poses a huge risk, seeing that there are many internal and external events that could impact on a company's overall performance, such as:
- the death of the CEO, owner or key staff member
- fire, flood or earthquake damage - this could hamper operations while organisations repair damages or settle insurance claims
- an interruption in the supply chain
- the loss of a major client
- production line failure or breakdown
- failure to stay abreast of technological innovation
- product failure or contaminationinterruption in telecommunications or power supply
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Tape still used in my DR plans
November 5th, 2011
Data protection requirements are further necessary to comply with regulated and long periods of data retention. For example, laws about data storage and privacy apply to the vertical markets of the medical industry. HIPAA requires medical companies to store patients medical records for five to seven years, and to store their childhood records for the life of the patient. This data also has to be highly secure and easily accessible to address patient care and also for legal reasons, such as a mishap in the office. Laws exist like this in many other industries as well, and a company is advised to research legal strictures on data protection. If there is a law requiring compliance, companies must often store more data for a longer period of time, necessitating secure, cost‐effective storage.
These requirements build a basis for using tape for data protection in the mid‐market, in part because of the high likelihood that organizations already use some form of tape in their IT set‐ups. Tape continues to be the preferred home for nearly 70 percent of the world's data. Using tape for DR automatically builds on existing infrastructure and practices, and provides cost‐effective long‐term storage that addresses DR and legal compliance.
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