Backup and recovery of data continues to be a critical component of business operations for any successful company.
Nowadays as part of a company’s broader risk management plan, IT managers are also delivering upon an IT disaster recovery plan so that the company’s data can be preserved and protected in the event of an IT disaster recovery failure or unplanned onsite emergency.
Physical data recovery is critical for business in today’s marketplace because quite literally so many things can go wrong.
Any number of reasons can cause the need for physical data recovery including ever increasing data loads, nonexistent backup and recovery plans at the user end, increasing and limitless network traffic, poor server performance, inefficient or even inadequate storage hardware, and poor or non existent backup procedures.
It is any wonder then that IT departments everywhere are struggling to cope with the day to day burden of managing IT disaster recovery services inline with everything else they are expected to manage.
These days the role of the IT department is challenged. This is because the job of managing an IT disaster recovery solution can be so demanding. Data type may vary dramatically (such as e-mail, databases, multimedia and graphics) and data may serve one or multiple related applications. Data also exists under differing degrees of confidentiality, such as company financial information, employee records or customer transactions.
Data can also be generated using any number of different programs and applications and platforms. Each program, application and platform needs to have its own IT disaster recovery plan, to ensure that the company can function in the event of a crisis.
In order for an IT department to better manage the varied and in some cases disparate backup and recovery needs and requirements of their company, the IT department needs to conduct IT contingency planning.
To do this they need to prepare an IT disaster recovery whitepaper that involves assess the needs of the company and determining what sort of infrastructure is needed to cater for a comprehensive and reliable process. Only then, can the IT department create an IT disaster recovery business case that will convince management that the purchase the hardware and software is in fact required to implement an effective IT disaster recovery plan.
As part of the IT department’s assessment, they also need to take note of the user’s needs today and in the future, and what IT disaster recovery services are already in place, if any. This is particularly important if the business has any kind of expansion plans.
The kinds of things that should be evaluated included in an IT disaster recovery report include:-
· Is it possible to consolidate existing hardware?
· Is it possible to use currently underutilized or unallocated storage space?
· Which systems are full and fill up quickly and which systems are underutilized and can be used as back up storage space?
· Is remote IT disaster recovery management support a possibility?
· Can end users take some responsibility for backup and recovery or should it all be centralized at the server end?
Nowadays as part of a company’s broader risk management plan, IT managers are also delivering upon an IT disaster recovery plan so that the company’s data can be preserved and protected in the event of an IT disaster recovery failure or unplanned onsite emergency.
Physical data recovery is critical for business in today’s marketplace because quite literally so many things can go wrong.
Any number of reasons can cause the need for physical data recovery including ever increasing data loads, nonexistent backup and recovery plans at the user end, increasing and limitless network traffic, poor server performance, inefficient or even inadequate storage hardware, and poor or non existent backup procedures.
It is any wonder then that IT departments everywhere are struggling to cope with the day to day burden of managing IT disaster recovery services inline with everything else they are expected to manage.
These days the role of the IT department is challenged. This is because the job of managing an IT disaster recovery solution can be so demanding. Data type may vary dramatically (such as e-mail, databases, multimedia and graphics) and data may serve one or multiple related applications. Data also exists under differing degrees of confidentiality, such as company financial information, employee records or customer transactions.
Data can also be generated using any number of different programs and applications and platforms. Each program, application and platform needs to have its own IT disaster recovery plan, to ensure that the company can function in the event of a crisis.
In order for an IT department to better manage the varied and in some cases disparate backup and recovery needs and requirements of their company, the IT department needs to conduct IT contingency planning.
To do this they need to prepare an IT disaster recovery whitepaper that involves assess the needs of the company and determining what sort of infrastructure is needed to cater for a comprehensive and reliable process. Only then, can the IT department create an IT disaster recovery business case that will convince management that the purchase the hardware and software is in fact required to implement an effective IT disaster recovery plan.
As part of the IT department’s assessment, they also need to take note of the user’s needs today and in the future, and what IT disaster recovery services are already in place, if any. This is particularly important if the business has any kind of expansion plans.
The kinds of things that should be evaluated included in an IT disaster recovery report include:-
· Is it possible to consolidate existing hardware?
· Is it possible to use currently underutilized or unallocated storage space?
· Which systems are full and fill up quickly and which systems are underutilized and can be used as back up storage space?
· Is remote IT disaster recovery management support a possibility?
· Can end users take some responsibility for backup and recovery or should it all be centralized at the server end?
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