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President & CEO of Sunrise IT Solutions Group,

adapted from an article by David Lane

As an IT architect, it is my job to build a robust, redundant system for my clients. What happens when the basic assumptions we make about disasters to IT systems change?  Most disaster Recovery strategies assume that there will be an availability of people to be able to:

• go to the disaster recovery site
• take the tapes to XYZ recovery company
• make sure my disaster site is x number of miles away from my primary site.

Then comes…….

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

In the days following September 11, 2001, the IT people in the financial industry were forced to learn a lot of lessons and executed them quite well. But in every picture and description I saw, makeshift tables were layered with machines and wires, clearly set up on the fly by IT professionals…..in many cases after working long hours to get the job done. Disaster recovery of that scale worked. But what happens when the disaster is not a loss of systems, but a loss of access to the systems and a loss of the manpower to run them?

What if…..?

A VIRAL PANDEMIC STRIKES

In the event of a pandemic, the experts have made the following predictions:

First, absenteeism could be as high as 40%. For an IT staff of 10, that is 4 people out sick, either sick themselves or caring for someone who is sick.

Second, depending on severity, mandatory separation may be instituted. The standard is six feet. Think about how far from your co-worker your desk is right now. Think about how you get to work, and how you would get to work if you could not sit within six feet of someone. It puts a whole new spin on the issues of mass transit.

Third, depending on the management of your company, rotation schedules might be implemented where half the staff is at home while half the staff is in the office. What sort of impact would that have on your IT services and your ability to manage your IT infrastructure? And are you ready for the level of remote access requests that will come flooding into the department and the issues of fulfilling these requests?

COST CUTTING in CORPORATE AMERICA:  Why is it always in the IT department?

As I have said a number of times, those of us who work in IT just cannot win. When things are humming along smoothly, the bean counters are wondering why they are paying us, and when things are crashing down around you, the bean counters are wondering why they are paying us.  In tight times, IT is almost always the first department to suffer cuts. Usually, those cut are at the top and the bottom of the stack, leaving those in the middle to bear the load, often without being properly briefed on the various back doors, trap doors and the ever popular what does that box do?.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a number of companies, in cost cutting moves, dumped real estate and went to remote access. Over the last five odd years, those telecommuting trends have reversed as management and employees want to be seen as valuable (and thus remain employed), and the communications lines have been slashed as a useless expense, without the forethought of disaster preparedness. As IT people, we are beholden to the budgets. Most of us work for companies that are more concerned with the quarterly stock price and how it can be boosted for the next quarter, with very little long term strategic planning being done. But it does not have to be this way.

How to help your clients be cost effective AND have a good disaster recovery plan

It is our responsibility to exercise the disaster recovery plans. So we have the opportunity to apply new tactics to the disaster recovery scenarios. Suggest that the next  DR test include a 40% staff cut. Roll dice, generate the names randomly, whatever works for you, and tell them just not to show up. Can you put the systems back on line? What happens if you cannot get the tapes to the DR site? What happens if your remote access systems do not work? These are only some of the things we should be thinking about and preparing for.

As IT professionals, we tend to get focused on hardware and software, in many cases down in the weeds so deep we do not see how all the parts go together, or what other parts are needed!  So, as we sit in the middle of the flu season, hurricane season, or tornado season and with winter coming…..disasters are waiting out there with a real scary potential.  Remember, as IT professionals, we should be considering an all-hazards approach in our disaster planning. And sometimes that means nothing happens to the equipment.

One of my good friends likened moving a data center to ruining your life.  He’s not too far from the truth, especially if your enterprise data center has any of the following characteristics:

• The enterprise data center has been in place for many years
• Systems and procedures are poorly or inconsistently documented
• Applications are interdependent with multiple interfaces and middle-ware

If you’re faced with moving a data center, doesn’t it make sense to try and make it your last move?  Certain types of outsource data center facilities can offer the ideal environment to build your “final” enterprise data center.

What are the characteristics of these types of outsource data centers?

High-availability: some outsource data center facilities offer 99.995% uptime, which in English means 36 minutes of downtime per year or less.  This is the uptime level defined for the Uptime Institute’s tier IV data center classification.

Carrier neutral data center -  availability of many telecommunications companies at the outsource data center facilities (AT&T, Sprint, TW Telecom, and many others) allows you to choose the best price/value solution for your network needs.

No cross-connect fees – a few outsource data centers charge no cross connect fees to connect to the telecom carriers.  By avoiding these monthly fees, clients can save money on each remote connection.  For companies with many offices and remote connections, this savings can sometimes pay for the computer room space!

Fair data center pricing model – the outsource data center provider should charge you for power
as you use it.  The pricing model should allow for incremental growth and change.

Benefits of outsource data center facilities also include lower data center capital costs – “renting” data center space exchanges the capital expenses of building a data center into monthly operating expenses.

Consider calling IT Solutions  www.SunriseITSG.com 817-262-2151 before your start the plan for moving your data center.

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Sunrise was founded in 2008, when several partners in the IT industry formed together to build SITSG.

Sunrise IT Solutions has over 25 years of senior management experience in data center migrations involving over 2000 servers and 900+ people.

We offer company headquarter moves and data center consolidations, reducing the TCO by over 30%. Our company is specialized in migration planning and technical support to make your move a success.

Our business strategy is getting back to what built America, offering a great service at a great price, taking care of our employees, and removing the greed from our corporate structure.