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Disaster Recovery Exercises, Part 1
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After taking Thanksgiving week off, it’s time to get down to business. With an upcoming Disaster Recovery exercise, my focus has been nothing but preparation this week.
I thought I would start this posting with a bit of terminology definition. With several organizations setting standards, and hundreds of practitioners in the field, terminology can get twisted very easily. What I have found is that there are some terms that seem to be used most commonly, so I will use them here.
The two I want to define today are “Disaster Recovery” and “Business Continuity”.
Disaster recovery has typically been used to describe Data Center recovery. This is restoring backups and hardware to get the Data Center back on its feet, either at home or at an alternate location.
Business Continuity on the other hand usually refers to the restoring of business process or function. In most businesses today, there is a data center or IT component in Business Continuity, but the focus is on “What the business does every day” rather than just IT.
More to come tomorrow!
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