In this episode I talk about the importance of being prepared for a disaster that takes your primary data center offline.
- Being prepared to keep IT systems operating during or after a disaster is critical
- What is DR, how does it work?
- How will you offer IT services if a fire destroys your data center?
- Voice
- Business Software
- Billing
- Accounts Payable
- Payroll
- CRM
- What servers will you use?
- How recent will the data on them be?
- What services and data will be available?
- This should be driven from management as a part of business continuity
- It should be driven by IT even if BC isn’t in place
- Hosting
- On premises, separate facility
- Up front cost
- Maintenance
- Space
- Data center
- Ongoing cost
- Maintenance
- Cloud
- On premises, separate facility
- Scope
- What needs to be included?
- Is restoring from nightly backups enough for some servers?
- RPO – recovery point objective
- RTO – recovery time objective
- Budget
- What needs to be included?
- Testing
- Soft failover
- Hard failover
- Final Thoughts
- DR should be considered a critical part of every IT infrastructure, make sure you have it, that the scope is accurate and that it works.
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