Disaster recovery planning starts with a discussion that involves key management employees. It is important to get their support with any disaster recovery initiative. Explain what disaster recovery is and why it is required for business continuity, cost reduction, generating revenue and improving productivity. Disaster scenarios such as fire, flood, earthquake, cold weather and employee sabotage should be discussed. Alternate vendors should be discussed as well as a potential issue with business continuity.It is my contention that running a network assessment is an effective strategy for determining what changes should be made to your network.The argument could be made that all assessment groups have some affect on network availability and resiliency.The availability assessment will collect most of the key information however the security assessment must be considered since problems with company security will expose your network to attacks. www.peakschildrensworkshop.org
When your network is being attacked it isn’t available!Management strategy assessments are key as well since the absence of effective management policies and applications will create a tenuous situation.For instance without any change management policies you will have employees changing application and device configurations without prior approval and at any time of the day. The configuration change doesn’t work as expected and it is 10 am while employees are starting their day. Guess what, your day just got longer. Pro-Active fault and performance monitoring strategies will indicate when a device or server is not operational or near capacity. Those situations will obviously affect network availability. Continue reading →
