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BCP/DR Primer – Part 5 – Test the plan, don’t plan the test

In the final post in the BCP/DR Primer series we are wrapping up with the final task in BCP program; testing the BCP plan. Another piece of debate is the semantics of the word “test”. Many BCP programs will refer to...
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BCP/DR Primer – Part 4 – Application Recovery Document and “The Plan”

So let’s review how we have come to this point in the process. In Part 1 we discussed the general strategy of the BCP program and the IT participation in the process. In Part 2 we moved into the definition of the BCP Tier...
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BCP/DR Primer – Part 3 – The BCP Recoverability Matrix

In our last post we laid out the RPO and RTO of  a couple of systems to illustrate how we can map our systems into BCP tiers. Now that we have defined our current state of the core IT applications and services we will examine ...
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BCP/DR Primer – Part 2 – BCP Tiers and recovery requirements

In Part1 of our BCP/DR Primer series we defined some key terminology that we will use as we build up our plans and document our systems as they map against our ability to recovery them. The BCP Tiers are common among many organ...
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BCP/DR Primer – An introduction to planning your IT recovery strategy – Part 1

You see the acronyms all over the place, and it can be very overwhelming. There are so many articles about cloud, SPOF, RPO, RTO, five 9 up-time and in the end it is really all meaningless unless you understand your own environ...
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Using Double-Take Software and the Virtual Recovery Appliance

When considering a BCP (Business Continuity Planning) solution for your application server environment, one product that you should definitely consider is Double-Take Availability from Vision Solutions. I’ve been using th...
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