Kenneth C. Laudon,Jane P. Laudon Management Information System 12th Edition pdf

Disaster recovery planning

devises

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Chapter 8

Securing Information Systems 

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plans for the restoration of computing and communications services after they

have been disrupted. Disaster recovery plans focus primarily on the technical

issues involved in keeping systems up and running, such as which files to back

up and the maintenance of backup computer systems or disaster recovery

services. 

For example, MasterCard maintains a duplicate computer center in Kansas

City, Missouri, to serve as an emergency backup to its primary computer center

in St. Louis. Rather than build their own backup facilities, many firms contract

with disaster recovery firms, such as Comdisco Disaster Recovery Services in

Rosemont, Illinois, and SunGard Availability Services, headquartered in Wayne,

Pennsylvania. These disaster recovery firms provide hot sites housing spare

computers at locations around the country where subscribing firms can run

their critical applications in an emergency. For example, Champion

Technologies, which supplies chemicals used in oil and gas operations, is able

to switch its enterprise systems from Houston to a SunGard hot site in

Scottsdale, Arizona, in two hours.