Pandemonium at Hot-sites

["Peter H. O'Connor" <PHOC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hundreds of companies were forced to go to Hot-Sites by Hurricane Floyd. 
Now, they had to recover their systems.  Unfortunately, 85% of these
companies had a 2nd disaster at the Hot-site; their systems were not
rebuild correctly.  Most companies (75% of the 85%) did NOT know that they
had a problem until users notified them or things did not work.  Disaster
Recovery plans went up in smoke.  Pandemonium was every where. Hours of
wasted Time and Money!   Raid/Mirroring etc. did not help at all.  It only
proves that even if you have mirroring or raid you are not 100% safe!  
Many companies have/had a false sense of security because of mirroring and
raid.  Ask some of the companies in SC, NC and NJ.  

Disaster Recovery Planning is mandatory.  Companies that go to a Hot-site
for testing after doing an option 21 are only fooling themselves.  That is
NOT a way to test.    How many of these 100s AS/400s just had an option21
before going to a hot-site?  A true D/R test should be unannounced.  A D/R
plan should be tested as if a real disaster happened.  When you are in a
row boat is NOT the time to asking yourself if you have all the material
need for the hot-site!   Start planning.  Learn from others mistakes.  Some
day it might happen to your company.  Start thinking about a plan, testing
a plan now!

Peter H. O'Connor
PAE Inc.
978-744-8612
www.paeinc.com
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