Shortcuts to stability

This article looks at how the downturn has affected organisations’ ability to maintain resilient infrastructure and how market attitudes are changing.

On the issue of where to locate a datacentre, Rupert Chapman, head of IT infrastructure consulting at PA Consulting Group, points out the need to seek the right balance in terms of proximity to the main site, which means weighing up such issues as getting skilled people on site and hefty telecoms costs. Rupert says: "An emerging approach is to have a metropolitan datacentre cluster that offers good enough protection with some remote data bunker or datacentre for the monumental "one in one hundred years" disaster scenario."

Rupert goes on to comment on the changes from the economic downturn and the impact of mergers, acquisitions and takeovers might have on an organisation: "Can they be sure that the critical staff named in their business continuity plans are still working for them, or that the critical systems acquired during a merger are fully understood and covered?"

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