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A mission critical environment is only as strong as its weakest link. Use this tool to ensure awareness of all dependencies and who to contact if something goes wrong.

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Downtime is more likely to be caused by human error or process issues, yet organizations often focus primarily on technology redundancy.

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Mission critical systems directly and significantly impact revenue, goodwill, health & safety, or regulatory compliance, and therefore demand a higher level of attention than non-critical production systems.

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High availability is typically thought to be about technology, but downtime is most often a result of human error or inadequate processes to prevent or properly manage incidents.

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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...

Vendor Research

This report is designed to aid vendors and solution providers in the sales and marketing of backup software to end customers.

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.

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

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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,...

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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.

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Disaster Recovery (DR) testing is an essential component of any comprehensive DR plan as testing is what ensures that the plan is appropriate, accurate, and contains no errors or omissions.

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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...

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Exploding volumes of data are driving the search for faster and more reliable backup, but data value and restore speed are also critical considerations. Designing a best-fit architecture requires these elements be evaluated alongside total cost...

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This template will help build a backup architecture acquisition business plan for the enterprise, as well as document business justifications for purchase of a particular backup storage configuration. The resulting document is therefore intended...

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Organizations engaged in a backup architecture redesign must align their architecture with business properties and requirements to minimize costs, while ensuring adequate data protection. Use the backup architecture appropriateness assessment...

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Total cost of ownership (TCO) is an important consideration when designing a best-fit backup architecture. Comparative analysis of TCO can help you decide whether to move forward with a design or go back to the drawing board. A careful TCO...

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Exploding volumes of data are driving the search for faster and more reliable backup, but data value and restore speed are also critical considerations. Designing a best-fit architecture requires these elements be evaluated alongside total cost...

Solution Set

Exploding volumes of data are driving the search for faster and more reliable backup, but data value and restore speed are also critical considerations. Designing a best-fit architecture requires these elements be evaluated alongside total cost...

(8-Oct-10) No data center is exempt from disaster. The truth is disasters happen all the time, caused by such things as human error, system breakdowns, and natural disasters. Worst of all, you never know if or when it will happen to you. The...

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Info-Tech recently conducted several surveys for our research projects.This document is a high level summary of those results and an introduction to the resulting research.

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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...

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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.

Note

Info-Tech recently conducted several surveys for our research projects. This document is a high level summary of those results, and an introduction to the resulting research.

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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...

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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.

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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...