Put Some DevOps in Your Disaster Recovery
IT disaster recovery is about saving IT, but it’s also good to see how IT itself can feed back into IT DR, offering new concepts and ideas for moving forward. Read more
What Disaster Recovery Testing Can Miss and Why
Disaster recovery testing before an incident occurs is a must. Whether you test to check or test to improve, waiting until a catastrophe happens before unveiling your plan is a sure way to fail. However, a test environment is usually not a production environment. Read more
Why Today’s Disaster Recovery Test May be Invalid Tomorrow
Test, test, test. Any disaster recovery plan worth its salt must be tested, and any shortcomings revealed by the test must be rectified. That’s how we make DR plans that are robust, relevant, and effective – as long as the configurations of IT systems remain reasonably stable. However, configuration drift is a fact of IT life. Read more
From Disaster Recovery to Continuity Management
Rather like the progression of the primate to primitive human and thence to homo sapiens, some industry pundits are now pushing this latest development in the disaster recovery chain of evolution: IT service continuity management. Whether this new concept adds much value remains to be seen, but it has the merit of being simple. Read more