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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. Let’s look at them one by one.

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The Rise of “Quick and Dirty” DR Testing 

MHA Consulting

Fifteen years ago the prototypical IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) exercise was preceded by months of meticulous preparations and took place over an extended period of time in the equivalent of a hermetically sealed bubble. They are still the only way of ensuring that your recovery strategy and plans are truly functional.