Mapping Application Disaster Recovery to Business Requirements
Question: Now that my organization has acquired space at a remote co-location data center and we’ve installed hardware, where do we need to consider in setting up recovery for our critical business...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery and Data Integrity
Question: When recovering an application at a remote disaster recovery site, how can the data’s integrity be verified before resuming production processing? One of the primary goals of a disaster...
View ArticlePreparing IT for Flu Epidemics
Question: Are there ways we can prepare for a large percentage of our technical support staff out with H1N1 flu? With the heightened interest in how to respond to the H1N1 pandemic, every organization...
View ArticleFive Tenets for Achieving High Availability for Critical Applications
Question: My organization demands critical applications such as email and ERP be “always on” (whenever users want to access them). What is the best way to achieve “always on” IT systems? The...
View ArticleReal Life Business Continuity Planning
Question: What are some operational considerations to expect while running a disaster recovery (DR) site during an actual disaster? You are in a panic. Suddenly, your primary data center is down and...
View ArticleCloud Redundancy – A different approach to component failure
Question: What is the best way to manage the thousands of components in a typical cloud? How does managing “at scale” change my systems administration practices? People have been managing data...
View ArticleCloud High Availability Take Two – Supporting Rack Level Failure
Question: I am concerned that the network is the weakest link in my private cloud. What will happen if any of my network hardware components fail? In a previous discussion of cloud high availability,...
View ArticleIs IT Still Relevant?
When an inpatient business unit marketing manager with a credit card can stand up an instance of Salesforce in a matter of a few days, and many companies have long outsourced their daily IT operations,...
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