Word Count: 836 Date:
Making Contingency Plans for Disaster Recovery
There are many kinds of disasters which may visit upon an area unannounced. And even if people get an inkling of their approach, there is little they can do about it. Companies whose offices lie in their path suffer massive destruction of their assets. Worse, they suffer total data loss and find it impossible to continue with their operations.
Examples of natural or man-made disasters include:
Fire: This can start naturally or be a result of arson. It melts and burns all objects in its path. The soot of smoke causes additional damage to data storage devices, as does the foam water sprayed by the fire brigade to douse the flames.
Water: Water damage to data storage devices may result from floods, cyclones, Tsunamis and even leaking taps or sewage backflow. Dirty and muddy water creates more damage to hard disks due to the sediments it carries.
Volcano: Volcano eruption is truly a cataclysmic event. The flowing rivers of molten lava and the super-heated para-plastic flow which heralds them wipes off everything they encounter. Everything gets buried under tonnes of ash.
Terrorist Strikes: These range from massive bomb explosions to commercial jetliners smashing into buildings. Terrorist incidents can cause the collapse of entire structures and set off fires, causing massive damage.
Earthquakes: These arrive without warning and turn entire buildings into huge piles of rubble. It is almost impossible to extract damaged data storage devices from the debris.
Lightning Strike: Lightning which accompanies thunder storms carries a massive voltage. When it strikes a building, it courses through the electric or telephone wires and destroys all integrated circuits inside computer hard disks.
Many companies go bankrupt every year when they are hit by such disasters because they lose all their data abruptly and are simply unable to bear its consequences. Such closure of business is neither good for the economy nor for the owners and workers.
Many companies, therefore, employ what is called disaster recovery planning or business continuity planning. This is a strategy carefully crafted by the management to ensure a quick and flawless recovery of essential resources related to information technology and communications such as business-critical data, accounts, emails and faxes, so that business activities can be resumed immediately without any delay. Usually, such planning is conducted by experts and taken very seriously by companies.
At the fundamental level, disaster planning starts by doing everything possible for protecting your premises from the unthinkable. The buildings are made earthquake-resistant, surge protectors guard against electricity spikes while fire-fighting equipment such as sprinklers help bring fires under control immediately. Over and above this, arrangements are made to regularly replicate critical data and send it to another far-away location. This can be done through various ways.
Many companies prefer to copy all data on tape drives and send these daily to some safe off-site storage. Others use storage area networks technology where storage devices located far away in another location appear as local drives to computer users. The latter keep storing data on the remote drives through the network.
However, the most convenient technology that is becoming very popular is that of automatic remote storage. In this, professional service providers offer their servers to clients for storing their data. All data transfer takes place automatically through a software that resides on client computers. The designated files and folders are sent once or twice daily to the servers over a network such as the Internet. There are strict security measures in place at the remote servers and all data can be accessed only by the client through a password. Whenever a company suffers data loss due to a disaster, it simply buys new computers, logs on to the remote servers, downloads data and immediately gets back on its feet.
Remote backups have many advantages. They are automatic without any user intervention. There is thus no need to have dedicated staff whose job is to spend hours every day taking data backups. The backup can be taken daily or even hourly, thus ensuring that the backup data always remains fresh, which translates into a minimum loss of man-hours. Remote backup servers can be accessed from anywhere in the world and the backup data can be downloaded instantly at any location.
The downside is that many companies are not comfortable with their valuable data leaving their premises every night to reside on remote servers over which they have no control. They fear that the data may be a victim of industrial espionage or may get stolen by a hacker, leading to massive losses for them. However, most reputed remote-server companies offer good security with multiple firewalls and hacker-proof passwords, so it seems that remote data backup is here to stay for a long time until some better alternative comes up.
Comments
Comprar cytotec en espana n3ZNYjuv81d donde comprar cytotec en mexico ZrcaPMV como uso cytotec QOIOdHhH precio cytotec mexico PPxYd1ms cytotec precio PPyMkZrcaP cytotec venta en colombia bUw7sR donde comprar cytotec en espana qCxeEl venta cytotec WyELTbi pastillas abortivas cytotec UqRiYmUqR donde comprar cytotec en lima n3ZNYjuv81d Cytotec precio espana n3ZNYjuv81d cytotec venta en caracas bUw7sR donde consigo cytotec qhEZiYm misoprostol nombre comercial WyELTbi precio misoprostol cytotec Yd1m Donde comprar cytotec espana PPyMk donde comprar cytotec en peru WyELTbi donde comprar cytotec en quito mhNBF776P cytotec venezuela valencia PGbUw7 cytotec venta en lima 2011 eNUagz cytotec venta uso n3ZNYjuv81d cytotec venta antofagasta qhEZiYm pastillas cytotec precio bUw7sR cytotec misoprostol argentina n3ZNYjuv81d cytotec venta en farmacias zWyELTbiPG pildoras cytotec QAPT9 Cytotec donde comprar qhEZiYm comprar cytotec en caracas PPyMk cytotec argentina precio qCxeEl cytotec pastilla qhEZiYm cytotec indicaciones mhNBF776P cytotec precio en venezuela mhNBF776P dosis del cytotec PPx cytotec pastillas abortivas PPx comprar cytotec en venezuela PGbUw7 comprar misoprostol en peru eNUagz misoprostol comprar argentina PPxYd1ms misoprostol nombre comercial cytotec eNUagz venta cytotec barcelona aGHc06V5r precio misoprostol farmacias del ahorro qCxeEl precio cytotec argentina PPyMkZrcaP cytotec venta quito ecuador qhEZiYm cytotec venta pereira n3ZNYjuv81d cytotec venta serena zWyELTbiPG costo cytotec peru PPx cytotec misoprostol dosis sRqhEZ cytotec costo mhNBF776P cytotec misoprostol colombia PPyMkZrcaP cytotec venta en mexico Yd1m ayuda cytotec ZrcaPMV cytotec barcelona QAPT9 cytotec como tomarlo qCxeEl cytotec venta en peru PPxYd1ms cytotec guatemala PPyMk cytotec comprimidos PPyMkZrcaP cytotec precio en farmacias UqRiYmUqR cytotec venta pfizer Yd1m cytotec aplicacion PGbUw7 comprar cytotec en lima bUw7sR cytotec precio espana zWyELTbiPG comprar cytotec en venezuela sRqhEZ precio misoprostol chile eNUagz cytotec costo mexico qCxeEl venta cytotec en espana QAPT9 cytotec en farmacias espana mhNBF776P como tomar cytotec para abortar PPyMkZrcaP misoprostol comprar espana PPx precio misoprostol mexico PPyMkZrcaP comprar cytotec en peru PPx donde comprar cytotec en quito Yd1m cytotec sin receta aGHc06V5r cytotec venta peru n3ZNYjuv81d venta misoprostol chile qhEZiYm cytotec costo colombia UqRiYmUqR venta cytotec en chile n3ZNYjuv81d cytotec venta tachira PPx donde comprar cytotec en madrid WyELTbi cytotec pfizer zWyELTbiPG cytotec generico funciona igual n3ZNYjuv81d cytotec precio en costa rica PPxYd1ms generico cytotec zWyELTbiPG pildoras cytotec Yd1m venta misoprostol bogota sRqhEZ comprar misoprostol argentina aGHc06V5r cytotec consecuencias UqRiYmUqR donde comprar misoprostol en argentina aGHc06V5r cytotec misoprostol guatemala n3ZNYjuv81d cytotec precio en espana UqRiYmUqR misoprostol nombre generico QOIOdHhH cytotec precio mas bajo PGbUw7 cytotec efectos n3ZNYjuv81d cytotec venta tampico QOIOdHhH cytotec venta en el salvador QAPT9 misoprostol precio chile PPxYd1ms cytotec venta serena n3ZNYjuv81d comprar cytotec en mexico QOIOdHhH comprar cytotec espana Yd1m cytotec venta puebla PGbUw7 cytotec venta tepic eNUagz misoprostol venta mexico PPxYd1ms cytotec vademecum ZrcaPMV cytotec en espana PGbUw7 cytotec venta en madrid PPx donde comprar cytotec en colombia PGbUw7 cytotec venta pachuca n3ZNYjuv81d cytotec para que sirve QAPT9 soluciones cytotec PGbUw7 donde comprar cytotec en bogota PPyMkZrcaP cytotec misoprostol costo eNUagz precio misoprostol mexico ZrcaPMV cytotec costo en mexico ZrcaPMV cytotec comprar bogota zWyELTbiPG cytotec cuanto cuesta PPyMk comprar cytotec en barcelona PPyMk cytotec sin receta mhNBF776P cytotec venta madrid PGbUw7 venta cytotec argentina sRqhEZ cytotec farmacias del ahorro PGbUw7 misoprostol nombre comercial ZrcaPMV cytotec via oral dosis PPyMk cytotec para la gastritis qCxeEl cytotec farmacias del ahorro PPxYd1ms cytotec venta en chile PGbUw7 cytotec venta salvador ZrcaPMV misoprostol 200 mcg pastillas Yd1m cytotec donde comprar zWyELTbiPG misotrol o cytotec UqRiYmUqR cytotec en madrid qhEZiYm cytotec venta paraguay qhEZiYm aborto cytotec PPyMkZrcaP cytotec hasta cuantas semanas aGHc06V5r donde comprar cytotec en costa rica PPyMkZrcaP cytotec venta argentina zWyELTbiPG como tomar cytotec pastillas PGbUw7 cytotec venta en colombia qCxeEl cytotec necesita receta medica PPxYd1ms pastillas abortivas cytotec PGbUw7 misoprostol precio farmacias zWyELTbiPG cytotec venta salvador ZrcaPMV misoprostol precio en mexico eNUagz cytotec venta tepic Yd1m cytotec pastilla abortiva PPyMk cytotec guatemala sRqhEZ cytotec tabletas PPyMk cytotec precio chile qCxeEl misoprostol generico nombre zWyELTbiPG cytotec misoprostol pfizer PGbUw7 comprar cytotec en madrid qhEZiYm precio misoprostol cytotec eNUagz cytotec via oral dosis PGbUw7 cytotec tiempo de efecto PGbUw7
Add Comment