Tool

Risk and Business Impact Analysis (RBIA) is about assigning the right resources to the most critical areas of the business in the event of a disaster. This Excel-based tool is designed to assist IT professionals in performing the RBIA exercise...

Building an enterprise Business Continuity Plan means understanding business functions and implementing measures to ensure that they can continue to operate in the event of an outage or disaster, regardless of the presence of IT capabilities.

Solution Set

This solution set will help clients ensure that, when required, the enterprise can put its DR plan into action.

Note

To ensure that the newly minted enterprise Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) does not become shelfware, a regiment of staffing, training and testing must be put into place. This presentation explores additional tasks that the enterprise must take on,...

Video

Building a solid Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) is only half of the battle; the plan isn't going to operate itself. This videocast explores additional tasks that the enterprise must engage in once the plan is complete. Ensure your enterprise can...

Template/Policy

Recovering from a disaster cannot occur without having key people in place to bring system, equipment, and services back online. Use this worksheet to identify team members, record contact information, and delineate responsibilities.

Template/Policy

Don't wait until disaster recovery (DR) is invoked to discover weaknesses in DR processes. Run a full test of the enterprise DR plan to uncover flaws before an event knocks out IT systems for good.

Amazon began experiencing an outage on their Elastic Block Store (EBS) service in the early hours of April 21, 2011. This event triggered outages of other Amazon services, including the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. Several well-known...

The Japanese government has been urging people to remain calm, trying to prevent panic. The press--particularly the foreign press--has been spinning the story to maximize the headline value, ranging from legitimate emphasis of the most worrying...

Publisher’s Note: Today, most citizens, and their leaders, around the world are convinced both of climate change and of the human contribution that is increasingly driving this change. The United States is unusual, perhaps, in the lobbying and...

Template/Policy

If you haven't created a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) in the past, chances are you may not know what one should look like, or what should be included. This template presents a full, editable DRP template; use this template to document your...

Note

Most organizations have some level of disaster recovery capability, but not all organizations have formalized Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP). Creating a DRP requires is a big time investment and is costly; these are the main reasons that...

Solution Set

This solution set will help you through the process of creating your Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) and help you maintain the documents.

There is more to disaster recovery planning than protecting against hackers and floods.

Note

All organizations have some kind of disaster recovery (DR) plan, but not necessarily the right kind. The enterprise should consider if the current DR plan is sufficient. Read this solution set to determine how much time and money are necessary...

Video

Your organization likely already has some form of Disaster Recovery (DR) capability in place, whether you realize it or not. However, that doesn't mean your organization has the right amount of DR capability. This video will help you determine...

Solution Set

This Solution Set will provide you with the ability to outline risks, determine appropriate recovery objectives and establish a cost framework.

Tool

All organizations have some form of disaster recovery capability, from simply knowing what to do in a disaster to having a formally documented and tested plan. The level of DR capability that is appropriate depends on the organization and its...

You have a disaster recovery plan (DRP), but will it hold up in a real crisis? Testing the DRP is essential to determining whether it is under or over built, and whether the infrastructure is appropriate. Use this research note to help put your...

Solution Set

Situation. For many organizations, particularly midsized enterprises, improved infrastructure availability and recovery is as big a driver for server virtualization as consolidation.

Note

For many organizations, particularly mid-sized enterprises, improved infrastructure availability and recovery is as big a driver for server virtualization as consolidation. Enterprises should leverage virtualization for better availability and...

Video

Backup typically has two parts: file restore and system restore. System restore is traditionally complex and expensive. File backup is more flexible. Virtualization turns a running system into a file and makes system availability, failover, and...

Do not wait until the DRP is put into action to discover weaknesses in disaster recovery processes. Run a full test of the enterprise's DRP to uncover flaws before an event knocks out IT systems for good.

Establishing operations at the recovery site is only the first half of the work involved in disaster recovery. At some point, services and systems must be returned to primary site facilities to resume normal operations. Repatriation is more than...

When disaster strikes, normal operations of the enterprise are suspended and replaced with operations spelled out in the disaster recovery plan (DRP). Recover from the disaster and lead the enterprise back to a state of normal operations by...

(9-Oct-09) People in general may have an innate fear of the dark, but for IT managers, this impulse can reach sheer frenzy in a matter of minutes. Very few enterprises are comfortable with the idea of sitting in the dark with all operations...

Although the swine flu has not killed millions, the H1N1 virus is deadlier than the avian flu was, and history dictates that the next pandemic will be worse still. Do not allow pandemic planning to fall by the wayside: prepare business...

(Network World) - Symantec Corp. has released the results of its fifth annual Global IT Disaster Recovery survey. According to the report, 93 per cent of organizations have had to execute their disaster recovery plans and the average cost of...

Template/Policy

No DRP is complete without an emergency evacuation plan for the data center. This template is designed to act as a starting point for developing an evacuation plan for data center staff.

No DRP is complete without an emergency evacuation plan for the data center, which is also required by law for the safety of employees. Create and test evacuation drills to keep IT staff informed and ready for an evacuation event.