Earthquakes, tornadoes, flash floods, tsunamis, lightning strikes. And let’s not forget hurricanes. Hurricane Irene devastated much of the Eastern Seaboard—and the hurricane season doesn’t end until November 30th.
Mother Nature is seriously upset.
These catastrophic events have made it painfully obvious why you should be doing something now about protecting your business data and ensuring datacenter availability. Does your disaster recovery plan or failover strategy rely on someone else to save your bacon? In case you missed it, even the most trusted cloud service providers have had their datacenters go dark this year. There’s some background on Amazon’s recent operational mishaps in my “Lightning Strikes Twice…” blog.
Last winter I had an uneasy feeling about 2011. In fact, I tried to warn you about it on January 3rd, when I published Who’s Got Your Back? Novell Does. In that blog, I suggested that you look into PlateSpin Protect—a WorkloadIQ solution that safeguards workloads by continually replicating them. I also highlighted Zmanda Backup Appliance, a pre-configured virtual backup server powered by SUSE Linux Enterprise that runs on any VMware infrastructure. There’s a short customer testimonial which discusses some of the issues to consider when creating a cloud backup solution. You might want to check it out.
You may have seen an article in eWeek recently that looked back at the September 11th tragedy a decade later. Everyone’s aware of the horrific loss of life and physical destruction that took place. The article pointed out a lesser known fact: “dozens of organizations lost all or most of their data in those New York City buildings which housed several datacenters.” It went on to state that “30 to 40 percent of all IT shops either have no disaster recovery system or don’t know how to use it correctly.” In this day and age, that’s unbelievable.
2011 has been downright disastrous for many companies that didn’t have a solid disaster recovery plan. Can you imagine being the chief information officer who must explain to the company’s board of directors how his or her department lost their company’s data? Awkward doesn’t quite describe the meeting’s atmosphere. By comparison, the Roman practice of throwing Christians to the lions would seem compassionate and tasteful.
If you’re considering reviewing your disaster and recovery strategy, I’d recommend checking out a couple of sessions at BrainShare October 10th through the 14th. Two that caught my eye are “Disaster Recovery and the Cloud,” and “Disaster Recovery Made Easy for a Few Dollars a Day.”
Until next time, keep your head down and your datacenter up.
–Richard
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