Getting Disaster Recovery Solutions Approved

Prioritizing and identifying the bare-minimum services is not only the responsibility of the IT staff; these decisions belong to management, as well. The IT staff is responsible for identifying single points of failure, gathering the statistical information of application and service usage, and possibly also understanding how an outage can affect business operations.

Before the executives budget for an organization’s disaster recovery plan, they should be presented with as much information as possible, so that they can make the most informed decision. As a general guideline, when presenting the preliminary disaster recovery solution, make sure to also do some preliminary planning for a lower-cost alternate ...

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