Better DR and BC planning

Business continuance (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) continue to be a main focus from a storage perspective for a number of reasons:

Part of managing, implementing and maintaining a BC and DR plan is understanding what level of data protection, availability, accessibility and service levels, including recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO), are needed. These service level items need to be understood, as well as applicable threats and risks for:

Understand what the applicable threats are to your system and categorize your applications, data and storage to enable the appropriate level of protection to counter those threats. Different applications and data have different threats and protection needs, thus requiring tiered data protection. Alig

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n the proper RTO and RPO to the specific business function, application, data and storage. Understand your data availability, accessibility and retention requirements, as well as their interdependencies upon other applications and technologies.

BC and DR storage related tips include:

Some additional suggested reading pertaining to BC and DR in general as well for storage include other SearchStorage tips and "The Resilient Enterprise" ISBN 0-9744578-0-9 (A community project including SearchStorage experts Evan Marcus and Greg Schulz); "Blue Prints for High Availability" (Wiley) ISBN 0471356018 by Evan Marcus and Hal Stern; "Resilient Storage Networks" (Elsevier) ISBN 1555583113 by Greg Schulz.

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