It survival kit
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.
Today’s businesses are growing and they share two common criteria’s,
Information Technology Systems
Broader National/International presence
Being in business, you need to be online 24x7x226, why other offices overseas or in another state need to be affected in case you are down; today an IT disaster recovery Plan is a must.
The IT Disaster Recovery plan, have everything, from the who, the where the what, to keeping a copy of the Disaster Recovery updated and off site. But some of the below points sometimes are either forgotten or bypassed.
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.
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