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Make Disaster Recovery Actionable

Keep your DRP from becoming expensive shelfware.

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Your Challenge

  • The enterprise has a DR plan, but has invested nothing in ensuring that it is actionable.
  • Without trained resources, and the validation that only testing provides, the plan is destined for failure.
  • This solution set will help clients ensure that, when required, the enterprise can put its DR plan into action.

Our Advice

Critical Insight
  • DR operations are not just an IT responsibility; DR teams must be staffed from across the enterprise and role redundancy is essential.
  • 40% of enterprises with DR plans never test them. Without testing, staff is never trained and problems are not discovered.
Impact and Result
  • Upon completion of the work outlined in this Solution Set, you will have ensured that the enterprise is fully prepared to respond to a disaster.

Get to Action

  1. Get a crash course on staffing and executing DR plans

    Be able to educate the rest of IT and the business on what's involved in operating the DR capabilities.

  2. Build a DR Team

    Identify the skills, roles and responsibilities required to operate the enterprise DR capability.

  3. Test DR capabilities

    Make sure that the organization understands the plan and can put it into action should a disaster occur.

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Vendor Landscape: Enterprise Backup Software

Find out which vendors are backing up their claims and which ones are just duplicating past efforts.

Document the Disaster Recovery Plan Now

Having disaster recovery capabilities is not enough; you need documentation for disaster recovery to be effective.

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    Pardo Mustillo - 2010-03-23

    Timely. Will pass on to my colleagues who are working on a DRP project for a major client.

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Solution Road Map

Other Solution Sets in Disaster Recovery Planning
1. Right-Size Enterprise Disaster Recovery Plans
DR is not a one-size fits all proposition; make sure spending matches needs.
2. Select the Right Enterprise Backup Software
Meet recovery objectives while addressing modern challenges.
3. Provision the Facilities and Technologies to Provide DR Capabilities
Treehouse or Taj Mahal? Pick the facilities and technologies that best meet enterprise DR needs.
4. Vendor Landscape: Enterprise Backup Software
Find out which vendors are backing up their claims and which ones are just duplicating past efforts.
5. Document the Disaster Recovery Plan Now
Having disaster recovery capabilities is not enough; you need documentation for disaster recovery to be effective.
6. Make Disaster Recovery Actionable
Keep your DRP from becoming expensive shelfware.
View the full Solution Road Map