Disaster Recovery/COOP: How to Make the Best of a Worst-Case Scenario

All agencies, regardless of their size or location, shall have in place a viable continuity capability to ensure continued performance of their agency’s essential functions under all conditions. – Federal Continuity Directive 1

Disaster recovery and continuity of operations planning have never been more important. The complexity of the federal IT enterprise – and its essential role in government operations –requires agencies to ensure that they have the strategy and technologies they need to respond to unanticipated disruptions, whether natural or man-made. And it is not enough to simply ensure that the data center is up and running. Agencies also must make it possible for employees to carry out their work from wherever they might be.

None of this is easy. But it is both necessary and possible. This webcast will provide insight into the latest thinking about disaster recovery and COOP, both in terms of the strategy and the technology.

    You will learn:
  • The most common pitfalls in implementing disaster recovery and COOP plans.
  • The importance of recovering complex, multi-tiered application stacks without human intervention.
  • A strategy for minimizing costs by combining virtualization technologies with disaster recovery automation to reduce the footprint at a recovery site during normal (i.e., non-disaster) workload processing.