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Disaster Recovery - An Expensive Luxury?

By Andy Peter Roberts

Few companies would argue about the value of a comprehensive Disaster Recovery plan that covers all areas of the business and holds the key to successfully resuming day to day business activity should the worst happen.

Most businesses would be pretty unlucky to suffer from major downtime due to things like fire, flood or theft. Terrorism generates a huge amount of column inches and the effects of something like 911 are truly devastating however even in the current climate these occurrences are thankfully few and for between.

What is more likely to happen is an email server failure, a corrupt database or the network being compromised by a virus. Guarding against this type of outage should be

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October 21st, 2008 | Posted in Disaster Recovery Policy, Security Policies | No Comments

Data Centre Reliability Checklist

By Amy Nutt

Planning, creating, and building a data centre can be one of the most expensive tasks an IT director can face. In order to maximize cost effectiveness and achieve optimum performance, reliability is key.

Data centre size can range from one room in an office to an entire building, but there are some basic requirements which must be implemented to ensure system reliability. When designing a data centre, efficient planning is very important. A number of areas must be addressed to ensure a dependable and efficient system which is capable of continued operation.

Understand the potential causes of failure

There are a number of areas cited as the most common causes of data centre failure:

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October 14th, 2008 | Posted in Business Continuity Policy, Disaster Recovery Policy, Security Policies | 1 Comment

Disaster Recovery Policy

The Laptop Security Blog over at www.absolute.com has an interesting post about how the Auditor General of Canada says government agencies aren’t upholding the Government Security Policy (GSP).

In particular, the Auditor General said that the security policy doesn’t include a disaster recovery plan.

Even if you work in a company you can expect that auditors are going to look for a disaster recovery policy and disaster recovery plan in your corporate security policy.

November 30th, 2007 | Posted in Business Continuity Policy, Disaster Recovery Policy, Security Policies | No Comments