Fire Extinguisher Placement

In developing a business continuity and disaster recovery planning on the one hand we need to understand the different between disaster (DR) recovery and business continuity (BC). The difference between disaster recovery and business continuity can be described with the following scenario.

In an incident where the fire swept the server room where all servers reside, destroying everything including all servers and all the infrastructure support, network routers, switches, LAN, the network cabling and all - nothing. In the documentation for your business continuity and disaster recovery planning, you take the disaster recovery and business continuity processes.

Disaster Recovery (DR) for example:

To restore the data (thanks to your daily backup strategy) to other servers in another site, you need to recover to a basic operational level. This will allow users to continue working immediately after the restoration is complete and the system is available again. It's part of your DR and business continuity planning process for disaster recovery.

Business Continuity (BC) Example:

In an effort to invoke the business continuity plan to open the disaster of fire, you would do the following steps:
aec Units purchasing new server, including supported hardware including switches, network routers and other network infrastructure
aec Rebuild the physical server rooms and other facilities such as network cables, racks of servers with a new design and much more, including the implementation easier to reach a fire extinguisher and other things to comply to HSE.
aec Long working hard to migrate the current data and management to a new system
We now see the different between disaster recovery and business continuity, all of which should be managed within your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning.

Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Planning

Each organization should manage the infrastructure of information and protection against any potential threat, and should also manage disaster recovery and business continuity against damage or loss in case of disaster. Threats to infrastructure are real and the costs businesses millions of dollars each year, therefore, guidelines on planning for disaster recovery must be developed to assist in the identification and prevention of potential risks that may impact of the company.

business continuity and disaster recovery planning provides a framework for the recovery of your IT infrastructure of any specific types of disasters both large and small scale. A disaster recovery plan helps to provide a pre-defined list and to coordinate measures to reduce the overall impact of the disaster and recovery after a disaster. During or after a disaster, a disaster recovery aid in planning to avoid any confusion for a speedy recovery to a stable level of continuity of operations activities.

Prevention Strategy

In your business continuity and disaster recovery planning must deal with prevention strategies that include methods that should be taken to avoid a potential disaster from occurring.
These measures are essential to mitigating risk and are usually implemented on the identification of a potential risk. Examples of prevention strategies include:

aec Daily backup and backup of data in a weekly or monthly basis should be taken off-site storage.
aec Firewall properly and well managed to protect against potential piracy for all types of threats to network security.
aec Anti-virus software deployed to all servers and computers to protect the virus outbreaks
aec Two redundant Internet connections are completed in two different exchanges AVO.