by Bob Cohen | May 4, 2018 | Disaster Recovery
I often blog about disaster recovery planning and business continuity planning, including strategies for exercising your plan to help ensure that it’s (still) viable. While there’s no substitute for an operational exercise, many organizations opt for the tabletop...
by Andrew Shumate | Mar 2, 2017 | Disaster Recovery
If you happened to catch Mariah Carey’s “epic fail” performance on the ABC Channel this past New Year’s Eve, you’ve seen first-hand that equipment failure during a live performance can be disastrous. Equipment issues also created challenges for Lady Gaga and...
by Bob Cohen | Jun 2, 2016 | Business Continuity Management, Disaster Recovery
In Part 1 of this blog post, I explained why it’s important to operationally test your disaster recovery (DR) plan, and why a tabletop session is insufficient. In this post, I’d like to talk about what an operational recovery exercise might look like. Any exercise...
by Bob Cohen | Jan 19, 2016 | Disaster Recovery
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in January 2016 and has been updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness. Yesterday I started hearing some unfortunate noises from the little external hard drive that I use for local backups of my laptop. These “last...
by Bob Cohen | Dec 1, 2015 | Business Continuity Management, Disaster Recovery
A big part of recovery planning is identifying and mitigating single points of failure (SPOFs). SPOFs are the bane of disaster recovery and high availability for IT and the business as a whole. And it’s no trivial matter to determine where SPOFs lurk, what risks they...
