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The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

In today’s post we’ll look at why organizations still need to be adept at IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) and describe the four phases of restoring IT services after an outage. Phase 1: Preparation Technically, preparation is not a phase of disaster recovery since it happens before the outage. Estimate how long the outage will last.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Split team operations – the possibility of splitting functional teams at alternate buildings to reduce outage impacts to operations (e.g. Reciprocal agreement s – agreements with mission-aligned organizations to provide space or technology capacity on demand. manufacturing facilities).

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

alternate site and technology requirements (ability to work remotely). Split team operations – the possibility of splitting functional teams at alternate buildings to reduce outage impacts to operations (e.g. recovery priority of business functions, processes and IT applications. manufacturing facilities).