Recovering from a disaster: A data center checklist
When you developed your data center disaster recovery (DR) plan, you designed it to protect your organization’s investment in information technology, communications and its staff. Depending on the nature of the disruption, your data center’s overall integrity may be untouched or it could be totally destroyed.
DR plans need to be flexible and scalable to address a broad range of disruption scenarios. In this article, we’ll provide data center checklists with recommended actions you can take in the aftermath of disaster. These checklists will make recovering from a disaster easier. Make sure you have the data center checklist—or a modified version using your own requirements—as you review the effects of a disruptive incident to your data center. Once you have completed an initial assessment of the situation and you are satisfied with the location of your staff, begin executing the DR plan.
Data center disasters can seriously disrupt business operations. While some firms address data center recovery by building a second data center or leasing specially equipped space at a third-party facility, a careful assessment of data center operations and risks is an important starting point in a DR program. With a well-developed disaster recovery plan, especially one with well-defined recovery and restoration steps, damage to a data center can be minimized.
See Recovering from a disaster: A data center checklist, by Paul Kirvan for SearchDisasterRecovery.com.
Tags: data center, Disaster Recovery, IT
