The Real Cost of Failure

This book focuses on two different but related concepts: high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR). Together they are sometimes referred to as Service Continuity Management (SCM). While SCM focuses on the recovery of primarily IT services after a disaster, as IT systems become more crucial to the functioning of the business as a whole, many businesses also assess the impact of the system failing on the organization itself.

No matter what your core business, it is dependent on technology in some form. It may be mechanical machinery or IT systems. IT systems have become central to many kinds of businesses but the business managers and owners have not kept up with the pace of change. Here’s an example of how core ...

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