|   Disaster Recovery From a System i Perspective
System i Disaster Recovery Planning
Author: Richard DolewskiPrice: $64.95
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ISBN: 978-1583470671
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Book Description:
Written to address the special disaster recovery planning issues of System i, this book is your step-by-step guide to developing an effective, workable plan to protect your company's assets should the unthinkable happen.
Businesses today are more dependent than ever on Information Technology. And, faced with threats from natural disasters to terrorism, IT managers must be prepared. To be ready, you must have an effective IT disaster recovery plan in place, and now is the time to create it.
Mapping out all of the preparations necessary for an effective disaster recovery plan and its safeguard—a continuous maintenance program—this guide is aimed at IT managers of small and medium businesses utilizing IBM’s System i.
Companies that do not have the budget or desire to hire expensive consultants will find this book especially helpful.
In the opening section, author and expert Richard Dolewski covers the initial steps of auditing vulnerability, ranking essential IT functions, and reviewing the storage of tape backups, with the following discussion focused on the elements of the plan itself. The plan includes a mission statement, a definition of disaster, the assignment of staff to teams, methods of compensating for human error, and standards for documenting the steps of recovery. The final portion of the guide covers the all-important initial testing of the system as well as the proper maintenance follow-up. In this practical book, Richard includes many sample forms and reports and weighs in on the pros and cons of using outside vendors for recovery systems.
Don't wait until it's too late. Use this handy guide to establish your System i disaster recovery plan today.
With System i Disaster Recovery Planning, you will:
• Discover a step-by-step process to develop, test, and
maintain your plan
• Learn to write a comprehensive IT disaster
recovery plan for the IBM System i AS/400, iSeries, i5)—
a plan that will work if it is ever needed
• Find extensive information and advice
specific to the special needs of System i
Contents:
Chapter 1: Building a Disaster Recovery Plan—The Need
Chapter 2: Vulnerability Assessment & Risk Analysis
Chapter 3: Conducting a Business Impact and Recoverability Analysis
Chapter 4: Critical Server Ranking
Chapter 5: Building Recovery Strategy Requirements
Chapter 6: Backup and Recoverability
Chapter 7: Your Business Value of Systems Availability
Chapter 8: Vital Records and Critical Data Offsite Storage
Chapter 9: Building Your Teams
Chapter 10: Effective Communications
Chapter 11: How to Develop and Document a Disaster Recovery Plan
Chapter 12: Effective Plan-Activation Procedures
Chapter 13: The Need for System-Related Documentation
Chapter 14: System i5/iSeries Restoration Procedures
Chapter 15: System i5/iSeries BRMS Restoration Procedures
Chapter 16: Testing Your Disaster Recovery Plan
Chapter 17: Plan Maintenance
Chapter 18: Selecting a Commercial Hotsite Provider
Chapter 19: A Family DR Plan
Appendix: Sample Documents
Product Details: | Audience: | IT Management, Programmers, System Administrators | | Level: | Intermediate to Advanced | | Subject: | Disaster Recover, High Availability | | Length: | 632 pages | | Format: | Paperback, Perfectbound | | Publisher: | MC Press | | Publish Date: | April 2008 |
System i Disaster Recovery Planning
Author: Richard DolewskiPrice: $64.95
Availability: Ships in 1-2 business days
ISBN: 978-1583470671
SKU: 5083 | |
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