Disaster Recovery (DR) has many different aspects to it. From Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) to Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), individuals in both IT and the business seem to think that what you accomplish during one exercise defines how you will perform during the next exercise. Unfortunately, many factors influence preparedness and outcomes. The business seems […]
The Argument for a DR Guarantee
Disaster Recovery has one main purpose, to restore all the infrastructure and applications for an organization at the colocation. And with this comes the need to rank applications, and hence the corresponding infrastructure, based on the RTO, or Recovery Time Objective, that is defined by the business. This generally helps to determine what should be […]
RTO and its Impact on Testing
As we all know, RTO stands for Recovery Time Objective. And the RTO for a given application specifies a timeframe that the business would like to see IT able to restore the application in the event of a disaster to the data center. However, what is not included in this definition is how it applies […]
Definition of a Disaster
For some reason, your data center just went down. It’s time to declare a Disaster. Or is it? Many individuals within an organization, most of whom are unfamiliar with Disaster Recovery let alone the processes and policies you may have in place within your organization, are quick to decide that a Disaster should be declared. […]
Who can declare a Disaster?
When something happens to your data center, is everyone in the company aware of who can declare a disaster? Many employees within an organization have a misconception about who has the authority to declare that a disaster has occurred such that your company’s DR policy and recovery of the data center should be put into […]
DR Blog Ground Rules
The DR Blog is going to need some ground rules for it to be successful. The intent is not to try to control anyone, but rather to make it enjoyable and valuable for everyone. Following are some items that are imperative to make this not only successful, but valuable. First and foremost, this site is […]
Why a DR Blog?
After about 27 years in IT, I was at a crossroads. I was in my early 50’s, had spent my entire life in some form of technical job, from help desk to app dev, and found myself looking at my future. Do I teach myself yet another programming language for the last few years of […]