Disaster recovery strategy shift reduces data loss, recovery time
“Under pressure to improve recovery time objectives and minimize data loss, IT veterans at MetLife Inc. took advantage of decreasing storage costs and an underleveraged data center to devise a multimillion-dollar disaster recovery strategy that met those goals, eliminated a security risk and will earn a double-digit ROI in five years.”
“MetLife’s triple play mirrors several trends in disaster recovery right now, according to experts, including a movement among CIOs to bring DR back in-house, often from tape storage providers.”
“At MetLife Inc., the nation’s largest life insurer, two IT vice presidents set out to improve data recovery times for mainframe data. The company’s recovery time objective (RTO), once a full three days at best when data was backed up only on tape and stored off-site, had improved to 28 hours through on-site data mirroring, with tapes also still in use. But data loss stood at 17 to 41 hours’ worth of data — not good enough in MetLife’s fast-changing environment, said Tom Meenan, vice president of IT risk management.”
See Disaster recovery strategy shift reduces data loss, recovery time by Linda Tucci, Senior News Writer, SearchCIO.com.
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