Disaster recovery: Lessons learned from a volcano
- Date: May 5th, 2010
- Author: Patrick Gray
- Category: General
- Tags: Disaster Planning, Ash, Europe, Disaster, Disaster Recovery, Data Management, Toni Bowers
Like thousands of other travelers, I spent several unplanned days in Europe recently due to the ash cloud spewing from the unpronounceable volcano in Iceland. I joked with friends and colleagues that despite several hundred thousand miles of business travel under my belt, if you asked me to write 50 reasons I would be stuck somewhere for several days, I most likely would not even remotely considered including a volcano on that list.
During the 14-hour drive from the shuttered Paris airport to clearer skies over Madrid in one of the last rental cars in Paris, I contemplated what lessons there were for IT and general disaster planning and recovery to be learned from this incident. There were three broad lessons I learned plotting my escape from the ash cloud that have broad applicability to corporate disaster planning...
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These are good guidelines that your disaster recovery plans probably don't already have defined:
Lesson 1: Focus on outcomes not scenarios
Lesson 2: Provide empowerment
Lesson 3: Have a price tag
Lesson 4: Figure out who to talk to
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