Denise Fortner, MBCP

Denise Fortner, MBCP

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

What's in an IT Disaster Recovery plan template?

SunGard Availability Services has an article that might be useful if you're working on IT DR plans:

Whats in an IT DR plan template

This is a good article and very helpful. It's also a perfect example of what a "plan template" means: it shows you the headings for the plan, the questions you need to answer, and what type of data needs to be included. It's not a file you download and fill in the blanks. 

Any guide that purports to be a quick fill-in-the-blanks template is a fraud: it's either so high level that it's worth nothing, or it's a sales pitch in disguise. SunGard Availability Services' template is exactly the kind of thing you want when you're looking for a template: some key pointers, a list of the things you must include (which is incomplete because it can't address every business in every situation), and some advice on the headings you want to use and in what order.


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