Disaster preparedness and recovery for flood disasters: What DR planners need to know
Recent flood disasters in New England, Central Europe, Brazil and Australia are reminders that this type of disaster poses a clear and present threat to businesses regardless of geography or boundaries. This tip tackles the subject of disaster preparedness and recovery specifically pertaining to floods.
Floods can affect large areas, causing various degrees of damage and disruption, ranging from total destruction of buildings to the loss of access to certain areas. This can affect business in many ways, including an interruption of all business processes, a broken supply chain, limited access to facilities and isolation of key staff. While devastating floods cannot be prevented, planning around them from an IT disaster recovery planning perspective can help mitigate their impact on a business.
Like other natural disasters, floods can destroy data centers and even entire buildings, but they’re more likely to cause the IT environment to become inaccessible for some period of time. By using some or a combination of the technologies discussed in this article, companies can quickly recover from flood disasters, or in some cases, harden their IT environment to a point where they can shift the recovery effort away from IT and focus on the disrupted lives of their employees and families.
See Disaster preparedness and recovery for flood disasters: What DR planners need to know by Pierre Dorion for SearchDisasterRecovery.com.
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