{"id":2884,"date":"2018-09-14T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/backup-disaster-recovery\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2018-09-14T12:13:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T16:13:50","slug":"interview-sungard-as-joseph-george-on-data-protection-hurricane-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/backup-disaster-recovery\/interview-sungard-as-joseph-george-on-data-protection-hurricane-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Sungard AS’ Joseph George on Data Protection During Hurricane Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"InterviewJoseph George is the vice president of product management and global recovery services at Sungard Availability Services<\/a> (Sungard AS). With Hurricane Florence approaching, many organizations are anxiously preparing for the natural disaster. In a situation like this, it\u2019s helpful to have some guidelines that are specific to the current problem. With five years of experience at Sungard AS, George was able to give insightful advice on how to best protect your business during hurricane season.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What is the potential business impact of a storm like Hurricane Florence? <\/b><\/p>\n

AccuWeather estimates that Hurricane Florence will cause $30-60 billion in economic impact and damage.<\/a> Despite being downgraded to a category 2 hurricane, it has grown in size and is predicted to move slowly across its path, which could result in dangerous flooding. If businesses did not properly prepare, a process that typically requires months of work, there\u2019s potential the storm will not only prevent normal business operations, but could cause damage so severe that the business may never recover.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are some preemptive measures businesses can take to protect their data during hurricane season?<\/b><\/p>\n

Businesses should prepare months in advance of hurricane season and focus on developing and implementing a well thought out disaster recovery (DR) plan that protects their data, systems and minimizes disruptions. There are the three main components that businesses need to address.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Data Protection:<\/b> If you don\u2019t have your data at an off-site, geographically separated, secure location, then you are exposed. How you choose to get your data off-site \u2013 via tape, disk backup, storage replication, or server replication \u2013 will depend upon the mission-criticality of your particular applications and the amount of business downtime or recovery time objective (RTO) and amount of data loss or recovery point objective (RPO) for each. However, simply having your data protected at a second location does not in and of itself make for a DR plan.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. System Recovery:<\/b> This constitutes the platforms, servers, networks, and storage that you will need to actually recover your applications. Your recovery environment should align with your production environment, and be compatible with all the above perspectives. If your recovery environment has changed over time, then ideally you have performed adequate change management between your production and recovery environments so that when you attempt to recover your data, the two are in sync.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. People, Processes, and Programs:<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n