Comments on: Earthquake fears prompt business continuity

Planning for the worst case means keeping communications lines open and planning for a vast amount of IT redundancy.

[Marcus Westrup]

CISSP

Disaster planning/recovery is one of the reasons the CISSP certification was developed. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be much call for this skill: Many execs that I've dealt with feel that disasters are someone else's problem, or that recovery will somehow be quick and easy.
My point is, not enough is being done to prepare for disasters in the IT business community. The talent base is out there, but there is little desire to make use of it.
I'm glad to see San Francisco is taking steps, but what about the rest of the country?

[Marcus Westrup]

CISSP

Disaster planning/recovery is one of the reasons the CISSP certification was developed. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be much call for this skill: Many execs that I've dealt with feel that disasters are someone else's problem, or that recovery will somehow be quick and easy.
My point is, not enough is being done to prepare for disasters in the IT business community. The talent base is out there, but there is little desire to make use of it.
I'm glad to see San Francisco is taking steps, but what about the rest of the country?

[wbenton]

What's NEW about this?

Redundant disks, redundant servers, redundant switches, redundant routers, redundant power supplies, redundant tape backup, redundant wiring, redundant sites... you name it... and they've all been around for ages.

Anybody who REQUIRES to be online 24 hours a day already has all of the redundancy they need.

So why is chicken little screaming about "the sky is falling" or "the earthquake is coming" now!

Walt

[wbenton]

What's NEW about this?

Redundant disks, redundant servers, redundant switches, redundant routers, redundant power supplies, redundant tape backup, redundant wiring, redundant sites... you name it... and they've all been around for ages.

Anybody who REQUIRES to be online 24 hours a day already has all of the redundancy they need.

So why is chicken little screaming about "the sky is falling" or "the earthquake is coming" now!

Walt