Business continuity planning for data centers and systems : a strategic implementation guide (paper)

This book will provide the guidance that corporations need in creating a disaster recovery plan--its focus will be on site selection for uptime critical environments. This book provides a blueprint for companies disaster recovery efforts--it will show the realistic time needed and provide the financial planning details that most disaster recovery guides do not provide. Issues that will be discussed in the book are:  Location of the mirrored site, its size, outside-plant considerations of power, telecommunications distribution and synchronicity, air-flight paths, gas lines, topology, railway proximity, multi-tenant, multi-story configurations, appropriate human component supporting the site, and the duration of service interruptions officers should plan for. The tentative contents is: (1) What is a data center?, (2) History of outages, (3) Statistics, (4) Costs of an interruption, (5) Cumulative concerns prompted by recent events, (6) Recent Acts, legislation rules, and guidelines, (7) Business continuity plan, (8) Implementation, (9) Testing/maintenance, (10) Successful implementation, and (11) Future of business continuity planning.

Preface.

1. How We Got Here: History of Data Centers and Current Choices.

2. Acts of God: Mission Critical Interruptions and Man Made Challenges.

3. Origins of the Business Impact Analysis.

4. Flooding: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid!

5. Data Centers Growth Velocity.

6. Energy Use in Data Centers Globally Through 2012.

7. Primary and Secondary Data Center Selection: Recent History.

8. Public Sector Laws: Guidance and Consequences.

9. Governments Role: Summary of National Infrastructure Protection Plan of 2006.

10. Tier 4: Basis of Design.

11. Unique Challenges of Cooling.

12. Unique Challenges of Power.

13. Going Green.

14. New Methods of Effective Site Selection: Negotiation and Execution.

15. Cyberterrorism.

16. Need for Speed.

17. Future of Data Center Efficiencies-Think Outside the Grid.

Glossary.

Index.

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