GlassHouse Director of Data Centers, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Bill Peldzus discusses which items you need to consider for your data center disaster recovery plan in the Data Center Futures Newsletter.

“I've given many presentations that address the "DR Expectations Gap," in which business assumptions concerning recoverability are often misaligned with actual IT capabilities. It's a fact that without explicit assumptions being clearly identified and communicated, your disaster recovery heroes of yesterday's recovery will become tomorrow's disaster recovery scapegoats.

Key among these assumptions, of course, is establishing classes of recovery in terms of RTO and RPO, but there are also a number of fundamental considerations that need to be measured, weighed and incorporated into the disaster recovery planning process. Here are a few practical planning items whose assumptions must be stated explicitly in order to drive an effective disaster recovery design and plan:”

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