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It survival kit
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The IT Survival kit Today’s businesses are growing and they share two common criteria’s, Information Technology Systems Broader National/International presence
Here is the list, of what to have/needs to be done, before a disaster hit. 1. Always have spare disks in recovery site for your servers and for your SAN. Because during a disaster, a lot of power failures, and lower voltage may play a roles is killing the disks, and even if your supplier SLA is less then X hours, he might not be able to access his ware house. 2. Power regulator, during a disaster, electricity voltage plays a lot, and it can lead to burning the power supplies of all your machines. 3. A cluster of COOLING SYSTEMS is a must in case one set failed, the other set will pick up, be careful of the circuit breakers , have an effective monitoring system, to alert the evolved parties with an “S” because it proved the S in plural will work. 4. A clustered UPS in case the primary fails the second will pick up, add in some extra batteries for long autonomy in case of battery failures or Fails in A disaster 5. Telecom interference should be thought of. 6. Redundant Internet supplier, and also think of Satellite communications 7. Fuel for power generators, should be stored safely , but a bit far away from the recovery centre, in case something happened to them and they started burning that they don’t affect you recovery center, and also take a closer look on the design of the fuel tanks and asks yourself what happens if the tank burns will it affect the other tanks, think of a Separated clustered fuel tanks supply 8. Be careful of having your recovery centre in a busy neighborhood/building, very close by petrol stations or HAZ/MAT and other high risk factors, for example you are located in the 16th floor and a fire hit in the 14th floor, “ where would all the smoke go, will I be affected, do they have efficient fire fighting procedure etc…. 9. Check your supplier/vendor if he has a BC plans and if he will support you in case a major disaster/such as a hurricane or War etc and do they have an out of state presence near the affected area. 10. Employees: because IT can’t run by itself one of your major risks are: the human element, train and rotate people in your IT environment, just in case the bad happens. See Also
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