DR Best Practices, and TSP

Just a quick link to a SearchCIO article on Disaster Recovery lessons learned and best practices. Besides being a good article, I learned a new term - Telecom Service Priority, which is

"an FCC program that directs telecommunications service providers (e.g., wireline and wireless phone companies) to give preferential treatment to users enrolled in the program when they need to add new lines or have their lines restored following a disruption of service, regardless of the cause."

Check out the article here

Business Discontinuity

The Data Center Journal has a nice article on " Business Discontinuity – 5 Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them". To summarize, the 5 mistakes are:

1. Appointing the Incident Management Team late
2. Assuming the incident will happen at 2am on a Sunday morning
3. Assuming muster points will be available
4. Trying to scare senior management into addressing BCM
5. Forgetting about the importance of employee awareness

check out the article here