Disaster Recovery Planning for the Infrastructure and Beyond

While the term ‘disaster recovery planning’ often conjures up images of servers in racks, disk drives and IT personnel monitoring system consoles, it takes more than that to keep today’s IT systems going. Power, air-conditioning, networks and the buildings that house IT systems are all part of the infrastructure required for IT operations. Any damage or unavailability of these items can quickly result in overall IT outage. But that’s not all. A really effective DR plan must prepare a business for handling not only hardware requirements, but also those for software and people as well. Read more