and to add to my email I just sent, what Simon said! On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Simon Butler <si...@sembee.co.uk> wrote:
> DR plans is something I hear about a lot, but I am of the opinion that IT > are the wrong people to drive this. > > DR should be part of the business, and the business needs to tell IT what > they need. > > IT cannot make the decision on what is and is not important. Do you know > how much downtime you can tolerate as a business? > > > > However the starting point I always make is the same. It is a DR plan of > sorts, one that is already in place and that most staff will know at least > the basics of. It is something that many overlook. > > > > Simply, what do you do in the event of a power failure? > > > > That will give you a good grounding as to what sort of things have to be > considered. If the business has justified the outlay for a UPS that requires > its own room and a generator the size of a small van in the car park, then > you may have an idea of the kind of business continuity that may well be > required. > > > > You then look at the location. What I would have in a plan for a company in > the centre of London is very different to what I would have in the Scottish > mountains. > > > > Although the fact that many people in IT don’t know where to start is a > good thing, because that means their business haven’t made the decisions and > it needs to be pushed back to them. For some reason it is thought that DR is > just about IT, but it isn’t. IT is just the facilitator. In effect, the > business is their client and as such their business needs to make the > decisions. Only then can IT turn round and say “we can do that, but it will > cost you X”, and it is seen as part of the overall business continuity, > which will need to involve telephones, buildings, access etc. > > > > Although the best DR plan I have ever seen was summed up in two words – Go > Home. > They were located in central London, inside the former terrorist road block > area. As such their entire IT environment was configured so that the > business continuity plan didn’t have to be activated, it was already in > progress. Staff simply had to relocate. As long as they had the internet, > they could operate – all Citrix based with the servers outside of London in > a secure Data Centre called The Bunker. The company would only lose > printers, but even that was managed, with everything going through an > interim system for printing, so if the printers were not available the jobs > queued indefinitely for printing later. > > > > Simon. > > > > > > -- > Simon Butler > MVP: Exchange, MCSE > Sembee Ltd. > > e: si...@sembee.co.uk > w: http://www.sembee.co.uk/ > w: http://www.amset.info/ > > w: http://blog.sembee.co.uk/ > > Need cheap certificates for Exchange, compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0? > http://CertificatesForExchange.com/ <http://certificatesforexchange.com/>for > certificates from just $23.99. > Need a domain for your certificate? > http://DomainsForExchange.net/<http://domainsforexchange.net/> > > > > Exchange Resources: http://exbpa.com/ > > > > > > > > *From:* John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] > *Sent:* 24 June 2010 19:01 > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: DR Plan > > > > Let me know what you find. We have a D/R plan, of sorts, but I think it’s > woefully inadequate, but like you, I don’t really know where to start. > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > *From:* Jay Dale [mailto:jay.d...@3-gig.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:23 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* DR Plan > > > > Hey all, > > > > I’ve been assigned to create a DR plan for our company, but I’ve never > actually had to come up with one before. Does anyone have any ideas, > templates, examples, or sites that can help me with this? Basically it > needs to cover our current infrastructure, if we purchase a SAN in the > future, and if we change our existing backup strategy from a local backup to > an offsite replication backup. > > > > Thanks! > > > > *Jay Dale* > > I.T. Manager, 3GiG > > Mobile: 713.299.2541 > > Email: jay.d...@3-gig.com > > > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may > contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the > intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby > notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and > attachments, if any, or the information contained herein, is strictly > prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive > information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply > e-mail and delete all copies of this message. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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