Disaster Recovery Planning: Preparing for the Unthinkable - Hardcover

Toigo, Jon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130462829 ISBN 13: 9780130462824

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2002

Synopsis

Dealing with disaster recovery planning and implementation, this book presents the disaster recovery lessons taught by 9/11, the California energy crisis, and the anthrax scare. It also provides a coverage of building DR systems that address networks and encompass end-users who maintain crucial enterprise data on local PCs and notebooks.

About this title

About the Author

JON WILLIAM TOIGO is Managing Partner of Toigo Productions, a consulting firm whose clients have included AT&T, Compaq, Cisco, EMC, and Hewlett-Packard. He has developed over 60 disaster recovery plans for commercial and governmental clients and supported the recovery of clients from disasters ranging from hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods to terrorist attacks post 9/11. He has held senior IT management positions with several leading financial institutions and consulting organizations and has written over 1,000 articles covering storage, infrastructure, and business automation for publications ranging from "Computerworld" to "Scientific American." His Prentice Hall PTR books include "The Holy Grail of Data Storage Management" and "The Essential Guide to Application Service Providers."

Forewords by Michael Shannon, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and Gregory Ferris, Executive Director of Global Business Continuity Planning (Institutional Securities), Morgan Stanley

From the Back Cover

The #1 guide to protecting and recovering your key digital assets--now fully updated.

• Disaster recovery strategies after 9/11
• Up-to-the-minute coverage: DR analysis, planning, strategy, testing, and emergency decision-making
• Solutions for centralized and decentralized environments, network and end-user recovery
• Advanced storage technologies and "time to data" metrics
• Implications of Web services and next-generation outsourcing
• Now more than ever, crucial information for every IT manager, sysadmin, and consultant!

"Disaster Recovery Planning, Third Edition" is a start-to-finish update to the #1 guide to disaster recovery planning and implementation. Thoroughly revised to reflect the latest strategies and technologies, it also presents the disaster recovery lessons taught by 9/11, the California energy crisis, and the anthrax scare.

In this book, Toigo offers focused, hands-on blueprints for disaster recovery in every environment, centralized and decentralized--with detailed coverage of building DR systems that address networks and encompass end-users who still maintain crucial enterprise data on local PCs and notebooks. Coverage includes:

• How to create a successful disaster recovery plan-with or without consultants
• Analyzing both technical and physical risks, including facility protection
• Choosing the right mainframe backup strategies
• Preventive and proactive techniques for backing up distributed, network-based systems
• New technologies and strategies for end-user recovery
• Emergency decision-making and recovery project teams
• Testing your plan and updating it to reflect organizational and technical change

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130462829
• ISBN 13: 9780130462824
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 512