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I really liked this piece by my SolarWinds® associate Brandon Shopp discussing how the right tools and plans can be leveraged to ensure successful network operations. The global pandemic continues to fluctuate, but the reliance on IT services and teams to support service continuity in the public sector remains steady. To…
I've been responsible for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Preparedness for my company for nearly eight years. In my role as Certified Business Continuity Professional, I have conducted well over a dozen DR exercises in various scopes and scale. Years ago, I inherited a complete debacle. Like almost all other…
In a previous post I discussed the idea that making your production system optimally available requires knowing the recovery time objective (RTO) of each component. Triage of any operational issue then becomes an exercise in meeting the RTO for each impacted component and for the system overall. In this post I cover the…
You can't usefully determine the necessary availability of a system until you know what level of service you expect from it. The meaning of "high availability" depends on what you need a system to do for you, how often, how quickly; and on the consequences of your expectations being unmet. Business continuity planning is…
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