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Is Your Disaster Recovery Testing Actually Putting Your Company At Risk? By Jim OConnor, Bus-Tech 7/6/2007
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Why Continuous, Point-in-Time Testing May Prevent Your Company from Security and Compliance Exposures
To quell the growing concerns over data theft, many companies have switched from physical tape backup to disk-based solutions and data vaulting whereby data is transmitted to a disaster recovery site over a public or private network. While this alleviates the obvious worries over physical backup tapes, it presents some considerations for disaster recovery (DR) testing. In a peer-to-peer implementation when businesses are conducting their DR testing, some businesses tend to break the data replication processputting them at risk for lengthy data recovery delays and the possibility of non-compliance with regulatory guidelines. Using appropriate techniques with an electronic data vaulting implementation, replication can continue uninterrupted during DR testing and eliminate any exposure of your production site and DR site being out of synch.
And it appears that compliance legislation will remain a serious issue for companies for the foreseeable future. Regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Government Securities Act Regulation 17, FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and HIPAA, increase compliance exposure for companies, and demand more aggressive measures to lower risk. In the case of a legal discovery, where companies may be required to submit company data as evidence, it is imperative that this information be factual, up-to-date, and compliant. If data is unavailable for several hours or days during DR testing, then companies will not be able to produce the requested information in the time required and may put your company at further risk for non compliance.
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Jim O'Connor is the director of Product Marketing for Bus-Tech and has been at the company for more than 15 years. In this role, he helps set the strategic direction for both the company and two leading product lines while also driving visibility for the company. He has more than 35 years of experience in the computer industry.
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