Why you need disaster recovery management, by Christine Taylor
Why is DR testing still the same time and money sink that it always was?
One reason is that although there have been advances in disaster recovery testing, they have not kept pace with the growth in DR technologies.
Companies invest not only in backup and recovery protection but also in replication, mirroring, snapshots, failover technologies, and more. Supporting and testing this plethora of data protection technologies is a complex issue. Add the problem of duplicating primary system changes to the secondary system, and you have a DR environment that is prone to failure at the worst possible time.
Disaster recovery testing and change management are complex processes. The reality is that IT will never have the resources to manually test every business process, every service, and every change. This is why disaster recovery management as an important technology. DRM saves dramatic amounts of cost, risk and resources by keeping a replication tree utterly consistent. This critical capability turns DR and DR testing from a high risk maneuver into a useful, compliant, and highly manageable process.
See Why you need disaster recovery management, by Christine Taylor.
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An unexercised contingency plan could be worse than no plan at all!
Be sure to read Disaster Recovery Testing: Exercising Your Contingency Plan, Philip Jan Rothstein, FBCI, Editor – the only book on this subject – for valuable tips, techniques and insights. And no, this book doesn’t mention Zombies – or Tribbles. Maybe the next edition…
