In our last post, we covered how to create a business continuity strategy. For the next installment in our series, we asked our resident business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) expert, Mike Cybyske, about some specific examples of when BC/DR plans were put into action and what key learnings came out of those experiences. Mike is a crisis manager at Qwest and is responsible for overseeing our corporate Crisis Management Team.
One of the things our customers ask us about most often is how to build a business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) plan. While most customers think of hurricanes and tornadoes, it’s important to note that natural disasters aren’t the only thing you need to plan for. There are far more common events like bad software, misconfigured networks and hardware failures that can cause real problems.
To discuss BC/DR, we turned to our resident expert, Mike Cybyske. Mike is a crisis manager at Qwest and is responsible for overseeing our corporate Crisis Management Team. This is the first installment in a series where we’ll discuss BC/DR. Today, we cover the strategic elements of a BC/DR strategy. In future pieces, we’ll discuss the technology considerations and how to evaluate a solution.
