Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Entering the computer age, a disaster recovery plan was a concept and not much else. The idea was that a plan would be in place for the day when things went wrong. This worked at the time when computers in world numbered in the 100's - there were not more computers than people in an office.Organizations got bigger and computer departments were suddenly as big as the sales department, more IT consultants were bringing in more hardware and software and no one really noticed the day that computers had a greater value than the people in the office.In that first phase when there was a mainframe, a form of backup was done on a regular basis, the backed up material was moved to a safe location and the idea was that if the mainframe went down, then spare time could be used on a different mainframe in a different location.Now a 50 person office has 75 computers; at least.Now there is a complex telephone system that is just a little gray box with some wires coming out of it, and no one cares what it does because it works.All those little wires pass through a closet that was originally built just for the wires, but hey, with the space issues this ...
Tags: Disaster Recovery Plan, Express, Space Issues
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