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Disaster Planning Business Continuity News
Disaster Recovery Plan Ensures Survival
Every IT manager knows the importance of having an effective and fast disaster recovery plan (DRP) and Business Continuity Plan (BCP). Organizations without an adequate plan may find themselves out of business quickly after experiencing a major disaster. Janco Associates has found that over 80% of all enterprises that do not have these plans never open their doors after a disaster strikes.
Organizations that ensure survival following a disaster understand the basics of creating a good plan; however, there are many obstacles and pitfalls that can easily be avoided.
Based on working with thousands of customers, Janco Associates has developed a Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Template that includes everything that you need to create a custom Disaster Plan.
You can download a full copy of the table of contents by going to http://www.e-janco.com/Register_drp.asp.
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Enterprise data protection and backup schemes range from the very simple to the very complex. In all but the simplest environments, you typically see a patchwork of software and hardware functionality layered together to prevent nearly any kind of data loss or corruption. Unfortunately, the technology deployed often defines the capabilities, rather than the business defining the capabilities that the technology must deliver. This is a dangerous trap to fall into -- both for you and for your organization.
Like an onion, a well-designed data protection scheme has many different layers, with functionality provided by different pieces of software and hardware. A wide range of technologies may come into play: SAN-to-SAN replication, SAN-provided storage snapshots, off-host backups, disk-to-disk backup, deduplication, virtual tape libraries, and server-based snapshots.
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Designing
IT Infrastructure requires CIOs to consider the globalized world they are now
in. It is necessary and valuable for CIOs to understand the fundamental trends
that are pushing businesses to redesign their operations around this new
reality. Factors they need to
consider are:
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Security - With the growing importance of digital applications and data, the sources of threats to enterprise data have multiplied dramatically. Everything from natural disasters to criminals to corrupt sources within the company might try to steal or corrupt data. While businesses do everything that they can to stop these threats in the first place, they still must be prepared to recover from these threats as quickly as possible.
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Business Continuity and Disaster Planning - As businesses have expanded the need for anytime, anywhere application access has become a requirement. At the same time, follow the sun (global 24/7) operations have shrinking maintenance windows and a need for applications to be running at all times. Delay or loss of data for any reason system failure, natural disasters has a domino-like effect across the entire organization, at any time of the day or night.
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Flexibility - Most businesses now operate across international borders and CIOs must be able to respond to opportunities and challenges faster than ever before. CIOs are usually battling well-resourced organizations that may be based where the opportunity originated, or another globalizing company that is reaching out for new opportunities. In order to compete, a business has to be faster to deliver a product or service as good, or better, than that of potentially any other company in the world.
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Simplicity - Increases in technology have typically led to increased complexity. While per unit costs of technology are always decreasing, in aggregate companies see an increase in cost. With the pressure on IT to act less as a cost center and more as a way to increase the profitability of business units, just adding more storage, more bandwidth, or additional technologies throughout the organization is no longer an acceptable approach to managing information technology. Successful CIOs are investing in numerous technologies including; continuous data protection, virtualization, and wireless connectivity. They are trying slim down ITs footprint while increasing their businesss competitive advantages. The CIO is typically in a difficult position, assessing where to try and cut costs while still moving forward with a plan to continually enhance IT services to the business.
Data De-duplication is a required tool for Disaster Planning
When it comes to backup and recovery, mid-market organizations are challenged to improve backup performance and reliability, manage costs, keep pace with capacity requirements, improve recovery performance and reliability and deal with tape media management. These requirements are driving deployment of disks with de-duplication in backup processes. But data de-duplication is only beginning to take hold in backup processes. For organizations employing tape-based backup strategies, use of de-duplication could enable disk-based protection while driving the cost of secondary disks closer to that of tape storage. - more info
Bank of America site goes down....
Bank of America was investigating an outage that affected an unknown number of customers but had ruled out a cyberattack, a representative said. Their disaster recovery plan was not activated.
"Our online-banking service is available," spokeswoman Anne Pace said in a telephone interview on Friday afternoon. "We ruled out a cyberattack, but are working with partners to determine the root cause."
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Checks found the site down during the morning and afternoon, as late as 2:50 p.m. PST. Several people reported the outage to and Business Insider reported that the site was down most of the morning. Several others reported that they were able to get through to the site, although at least one said it was sluggish.
Bank of America's Twitter account was reporting that "Our Web site is available. However, some customers are having intermittent issues with access. We are working to determine the root cause."
One person reported that he discovered a work-around: "I tried going to the site via my mobile device, and it works! So then I typed the URL that my mobile device uses into my desktop browser, and I can get in. So it doesn't seem that the Web site, per se, is down, only the 'normal' entry portal?"
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