Strategies for delivering disaster recovery solutions for the modern datacentre (page 3 of 3)

Risk Analysis
Now you know the potential threats to each application you can start to look at those threats in terms of how they would impact the application, and ultimately the business, if they were to be come a reality. An important part of this process is to look at all the knock-on effects of those threats and ultimately their financial impact.

5. Investment Requirement
Once in a position of having analysed the risks to your applications you are now in a position to make a business decision on what level of investment needs to be made to protect each of those applications. We looked earlier at the technology at your disposal and the outcome of your risk analysis can guide you as to how much of the complete solution should be applied to each application. The good news is that some of the spin off benefits of a consolidated, centralised infrastructure is that some of that technology may already be in place.

Having been through this process you're now in a position to bring in the other elements of your plan, such as drawing up detailed procedures to follow, in the event of a disaster and assigning responsibilities.

Summary
There are many threats to a modern consolidated datacentre and the consequences of those threats becoming a reality are greater than ever.

Traditionally when people have thought of disasters they have immediately thought of natural disasters, but today disasters can come in all shapes and sizes and, with the stakes getting higher, it is more important than ever to plan for them.

Putting in place a plan will allow you to deploy the right technology to avoid a lot of the smaller local threats and to ensure that you have the right protection for when things do go wrong.

Ultimately VERITAS can ensure that you deploy the right solution in the right place and ensure that your business can survive a disaster with minimal impact.