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Disaster Pllanning tool chosen by 3,000 plus enterprises
Just because your company is not a major corporation with hundreds of offices and thousands of employees does not mean your are not under the same pressures to maintain access to critical information in order to run your business and remain competitive. But buying the same complex and expensive solutions as the major players in your industry can be cost-prohibitive -- and unnecessary. You feel the same pressures to secure your data as a massive corporation does, but without the massive budget.
The disaster planning template is the way to go. Over 3,000 enterprises world wide have chosen it as the tool of choice.
- more infoDisasters can occur any where at any time
Disasters are unpredictable by nature and can strike anywhere at anytime with little or no warning. Recovering from one is expensive and time consuming, particularly for those who have not taken the time to think ahead and prepare for such possibilities.
Disaster Planning - Janco has found that 80% of all enterprises that do not have a disaster recovery / business continuity plan in place before a disaster occurs never reopen. However, when disaster strikes, those who have prepared and made recovery plans survive with comparatively minimal loss and/or disruption of productivity.
Disasters can take several different forms. Some primarily impact individuals -- e.g., hard drive meltdowns -- while others have a larger, collective impact. Disasters can occur such as power outages, floods, fires, storms, equipment failure, sabotage, terrorism, or even epidemic illness. Each of these can at the very least cause short-term disruptions in normal business operation. But recovering from the impact of many of the aforementioned disasters can take much longer, especially if organizations have not made preparations in advance.
Most of us recognize that these potential problems as possibilities. Unfortunately the randomness of some of these disasters lulls some organizations into a sense of false security-"that's not likely to happen here." However, if proper preparations have been made, the disaster recovery process does not have to be exceedingly stressful. Instead the process can be streamlined, but this facilitation of recovery will only happen where preparations have been made. Organizations that take the time to implement disaster recovery plans ahead of time often ride out catastrophes with minimal or no loss of data, hardware, or business revenue. This in turn allows them to maintain the faith and confidence of their customers and investors.
Disaster Recovery Planning is the factor that makes the critical difference between the organizations that can successfully manage crises with minimal cost and effort and maximum speed, and those that are left picking up the pieces for untold lengths of time and at whatever cost providers decide to charge; organizations forced to make decision out of desperation.
- more infoDisaster Plan Common Failures
Disaster Recovery Business Continuity - Common Failures
Most common mistakes made in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning are eliminated by implementing the Janco Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Template. Problems that are avoided are:
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Failure to identify every potential event that can jeopardize the infrastructure and data that your enterprise depends
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Failure to cross-train personnel in disaster recovery and business continuity
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Failure to create a communication processes which will work when your communication infrastructure is lost
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Failure to have adequate backup power
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Failure to know which resources need to be restored first
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Failure to have adequate physical documentation of your Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plan
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Failure to validate the adequacy of your back ups
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Failure to test your Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plan
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Failure to have passwords available to the Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity team
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Failure to keep your Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plan up to date
A disaster occurs -- now what?
A disaster or business interruption occurs, what do you do? A quick roadmap to follow is:
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Do not panic and remain calm! When a disaster or business interruption occurs the first priority number is to ensure the safety of the employees.
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Evaluate the disaster! Determine the impact on your personnel and enterprise operations, this evaluation the event is critical in making the decision to activate the disaster recovery business continuity procedures.
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Communicate with everyone that can be impacted! Communicate with your team, managers, affiliates, and vendors frequently. Even if there is no status to report, do not leave anyone guessing or letting them draw their own conclusions.
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Know the disaster recovery business continuity plan! Testing the Business Continuity Plan regularly helps everyone in becoming familiar with what will happen and how it will be done.
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Be decisive! Once you have determined the level of disaster and everyone is safe to operate, it is time to make the decision if you need to implement the business continuity procedures or if the downtime for recovery acceptable.
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Start the process! Start with recovering the most business critical systems first to restore business operations to a functional level. There should not be any question, which order which applications need to be restored first.
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Lock down all backups and critical documentation! The first step to the recovery is having a set of data to recover from. This could be anything from archived tape, local disk copy, and a co-location or disaster recovery data center.
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Use multiple solution paths! Assume that nothing will work and have alternatives in place
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Reactivate normal operations! Once the systems are operational, the disaster is over and systems are repaired it is time to move the workloads back to where they were originally.
Next Disaster Requires Culture of Preparedness
At the center of the recent White House report "Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned," there is a call to "foster a new, robust culture of preparedness."The challenge comes after the report details the long list of tragedies that last year's deadly hurricane wrought, including more than 1,330 deaths and $96 billion in property damage. In terms of communications, 38 centers that normally handled 911 calls failed, while 3 million customers lost phone service.
The report urges a wide variety of players to build this new culture, including myriad federal agencies and tens of thousands of state and local emergency first responder agencies. And it calls on private citizens and the private sector to take part.
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