The Office of The Treasurer for the State of Ohio adopts internal recovery solution

The Office of The Treasurer for the State of Ohio (TOS) has developed a disaster recovery strategy which utilises existing technology assets. The organisation decided to adopt an internal solution rather than use a third party recovery provider as it felt that this would provide greater control during invocation and would help to reduce costs.

TOS has developed the DR strategy in conjunction with business continuity consultant Corigelan LLC, a company formed in late 2003 by former Comdisco senior executives. Corigelan presented TOS with a range of recovery solutions, with TOS choosing what Corigelan claims is becoming a growing trend among progressive enterprises: an internal recovery capability that ‘leverages infrastructure and human assets already within the organisation’.

Corigelan states that three factors shaped the proposed internal recovery strategy:

* Leverage facilities already owned
Technology advancements and refinements in recent years have left TOS with smaller technology footprints in both of TOS’s main locations. Corigelan showed TOS that available capacity allows each site to function as the immediate or failover site for the other – eliminating the need to pay subscription fees for an external back up facility.

* Range of recovery time frame allows for tiered recovery solution
Corigelan is helping TOS staff solve the organisation’s business continuity issues by helping them understand how information flows through the entire enterprise and how business processes integrate with technology. This enterprise-wide assessment resulted in a tiered recovery solution that ranked the application and business functions according to their restoration priority. With recovery time frames spanning four hours to several days, Corigelan was able to devise a sequenced recovery solution that precisely fits TOS’s complex recovery requirements

* Rapid replacement or quick ship for less urgent applications
If an interruption occurs at TOS, the applications with highest priority Recovery Time Objectives would run in TOS’ existing facilities, while some less urgent applications (manageable impacts of more than 24 hours) will be addressed via rapid replacement or quick ship options. Today, many vendors can ship and configure the exact array of equipment according to specific recovery objectives, meaning TOS would only have to incur this cost when absolutely necessary.

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•Date: 16th March 2004 •Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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