Disaster Recovery & Corporate Survival Strategies: Pre-Emptive Procedures & Countermeasures (Executive Briefings)

The terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre caused the most extensive destruction ever of computer systems, throwing the importance of effective back-up and storage systems into the limelight as being essential to corporate survival. This briefing addresses the technical and business sides of installing back-up systems that are designed to cater not only for terrorist attacks, but also acts of God and other dangers. It examines disaster recovery plans and what is involved in installing and implementing them. It details the latest technologies, such as fibre channel storage area networks (SANs), and reviews the latest high-performance back-up tapes, as well as more traditional products. For key industries such as financial services, having data properly back up in safe remote locations in case of terrorist or other attacks could make the difference between survival and extinction.