SearchDisasterRecovery- Disaster recovery best practices: Avoiding DR interdependency predicaments

It’s no secret that building up effective disaster recovery (DR) capabilities is peppered with challenges. From identifying business requirements and mapping them to non-budget-busting technology solutions to coping with the operational impact of disaster recovery planning and testing, it seems that every step of the process introduces hurdles to overcome.

At the same time, surveys highlight that the increased impact of outages and business demand for improved uptime places more pressure on IT to do something to improve the state of disaster recovery within their organization(s). On the bright side, technology options for DR are increasing and becoming more and more cost-effective. The widespread adoption of server virtualization, an increased variety of options for networked storage and lower bandwidth costs are encouraging more organizations to renew their efforts to improve their DR practices. However, when trying to improve disaster recovery, there are steps that newcomers may miss and even old-timers may not adequately consider. So I’ve provided some of the best practices to help you avoid DR interdependency predicaments.

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Alex Carroll

Managing Member at Lifeline Data Centers

Alex, co-owner, is responsible for all real estate, construction and mission critical facilities: hardened buildings, power systems, cooling systems, fire suppression, and environmentals. Alex also manages relationships with the telecommunications providers and has an extensive background in IT infrastructure support, database administration and software design and development. Alex architected Lifeline’s proprietary GRCA system and is hands-on every day in the data center.