The “set it and forget it” dream has been around for a while. It has always been tempting to wish that systems could be built in accordance with disaster recovery plans, and then left alone until the moment when circumstances called for them to be activated. Now cloud computing is being hailed as the solution…
How far would you expect a disaster recovery plan to extend into the aftermath of a disaster? Days? Weeks? Months? Years…? The Queensland Natural Disasters Jobs and Skills Package from the state of the same name in Australia shows how government perspectives on a situation can be different to individual enterprises, especially in terms of…
Disaster recovery plans need to take account of changes. Regular reviews of changes in a company’s operations and dependencies, and developments in DR tools are all part of DR planning. What was true twelve months ago may have changed significantly by now and projected responses to disaster situations need to be updated accordingly. However, until…
Ideally, business continuity plan best practice revolves around identifying the key risks and how to handle them, and separating out risks that do not justify planning time and effort, because they are too small or too improbable. The problem is to decide whether or not a risk merits inclusion in the BC plan. The current…
Cloud computing, that recent IT evolution, has been hailed as a boon to business continuity plans. Indeed, it has a lot to offer, including IT network redundancy, reduced costs and flexible billing. For these reasons, it immediately scores over traditional hot or cold mirrored data centres with more substantial initial and ongoing costs. Naturally, adequate…
A business case for business continuity is not just about additional benefits that BC might bring to an organisation. In some cases, the need to ensure that an enterprise can “take a lickin’ and still keep on tickin’ “ means other advances in operational theory and practice need to be given up. A case in…