10 Items For Your Disaster Recovery Wish List

By ajohnson June 2, 2008 @ 9:58 am

In a TechRepublic article, author Rick Vanover provides a quick disaster recovery wish list.  I could just hear the legions of IT managers saying their “Amens and Halleluja’s” when reading Rick’s list. 

There are 2 items that especially rang true to me. 

Item number 3, “Everything starts with DR in mind” is probably the most challenging to accomplish. It’s one thing to think about disaster recovery during your nightly backup but it’s another thing to ensure all IT systems and policies comply with disaster recovery requirements.  To do so requires changing the mindset of your IT department as well as your executive team.  Without the support of the executive team, proper disaster recovery planning, implementation AND testing is nearly impossible to achieve. 

Item #10, “All things are possible for the small environment, too.”  Our mission at Simply Continuous is to create IT disaster recovery products and services for small and medium enterprises.  Rick accurately describes that technologies such as virtualization have enabled the small enterprise to achieve disaster recovery objectives.  However, we know that small IT departments are already taxed with doing more for less.  So adding one more technology like virtualization to their list to learn can be overwhelming and take IT resources away from other mission critical activities. 

For the companies who don’t have the resources to develop the domain expertise to successfully implement and maintain their virtual servers, Simply Continuous offers a managed service called AppAlive.  We’re experts at virtualization so you don’t have to be. 

The list is helpful when fine-tuning your existing plan or just getting started.  Compare your wish list with Rick’s by visiting http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=339.