NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: MIKE KARP ON STORAGE IN THE ENTERPRISE
07/05/05
Today's focus: What's your simple rule for disaster recovery
planning?
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In this issue:
* Please share your golden rule for disaster recovery planning
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Today's focus: What's your simple rule for disaster recovery
planning?
By Mike Karp
When I worked at vendor companies, one of the things that
annoyed me most about analysts was that many of them seemed to
have a somewhat precarious hold on reality. Often we would ask
them specific questions and get sweeping generalizations for
answers; sometimes bland platitudes replaced the
generalizations; occasionally we got some useful stuff too.
I do remember that in many cases we would leave meetings
wondering why we had paid such exorbitant fees to people whose
reputations seemed to be based on their intuitive grasp of the
blindingly obvious.
Now I too am an analyst, but hopefully not like the ones I once
contracted with. Only my clients know for sure.
The obvious is not always obvious, of course. (Test question for
today: anyone remembers the short story by Poe that relied on
this fact?)
In the course of writing this column, I sometimes find my
readers bring up embarrassingly obvious points as well. In this
case however, what is obvious to them may not have been so
obvious to me. Take for example the case of one of my readers,
"Ray from the FAA."
Ray is an IT manager for the U.S. government, and it is no doubt
at least partially to the credit of him and his colleagues that
I have landed safely as many times as I have taken off. In a
letter, Ray raised the issue - now obvious - that the thousands
of readers who see this newsletter twice a week represent a
substantial network of experience and expertise. Why, he
suggested, shouldn't we tap into that resource from time to
time?
Not a bad point, and one that is so obvious I wonder why we have
never done it before.
Ray's note to me came right after I returned from StorageWorld
Conference, where I led a few panel discussions. At the end of
the "disaster recovery roundtable" I asked my panel members -
senior IT guys who really knew their stuff - to provide a single
guiding principle that the audience could take away and use when
they were implementing their own disaster recovery plans, they
all agreed on one point: once you have made a plan, TEST IT.
So simple. So obvious. And apparently, so rarely done.
Most of us have come across obvious, simple, and perhaps cheap
solutions to problems, or at least have learned to avoid certain
mistakes. Which brings me to the interesting point of knowledge
sharing. Let's try it.
Let's try to compile a few useful rules of the road for the IT
community.
Here is a question for my readers: Do you have a simple rule you
can share with the rest of the readers on the subject of
disaster recovery planning? If you have something like that, and
can share it in a description of 100 words or less, I'll print
it in this newsletter. Send something in and if it looks useful,
we'll get it in print.
Now it's your turn.
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To contact: Mike Karp
Mike Karp is senior analyst with Enterprise Management
Associates, focusing on storage, storage management and the
methodology that brings these issues into the marketplace. He
has spent more than 20 years in storage, systems management and
telecommunications. Mike can be reached via e-mail
<mailto:mkarp@enterprisemanagement.com>.
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the way work gets done-and for the better. To allow the entire
organization to get the most from this paradigm shift in
productivity, Nokia Enterprise Solutions focuses on delivering
increased efficiency through enhanced mobility. Learn more by
downloading this white paper today!
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FEATURED READER RESOURCE
FOCUS ON RECOVERY
IT professionals are changing the way they back up and recover
data, experts say, with new emphasis on the speedier fetching of
data made possible by advancing technologies. At a recent
storage conference in Orlando, disk-based backup solutions were
touted - find out if attendees agreed and if faster storage
solutions will soon be available. Click here:
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