Nobody anticipated that all the data centers in lower Manhattan would be knocked offline before Super Storm Sandy hit in 2012. But they were—and it was days before electricity, network connectivity, and access to those data centers was restored. Some businesses never recovered from that outage; they simply lost too much money and too much business; others survived, but lost a lot of money during the outage.
The Importance of a Disaster Recovery Plan for Unexpected Outages
You can’t anticipate a Super Storm Sandy, but you can develop a disaster recovery (DR) plan designed to ensure that you have access to your data and critical applications even when disaster unexpectedly strikes. This article published in Cloud Data Insights by Dave Bermingham of SIOS looks at how to build a DR solution using cloud infrastructure in a region that is geographically distant from the one in which day-to-day operations are running. It also looks at methods of replicating data to the remote infrastructure and practical matters related to the implementation and testing of a DR plan. After all, a DR plan not only needs to work on paper; it also needs to work in practice, and only by testing the DR plan will teams know what to do to ensure that the organization can continue to access its data and critical applications in the face of a disaster.
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Author: Beth Winkowski, SIOS Public Relations
