Preparing for Disaster Recovery
Corporations spend millions of dollars per year designing, upgrading and maintaining their IT environment. The underlining infrastructure that supports these environments can be very complex, both from a technical and a compliance aspect of the business. This has encouraged IT managers to energetically implement virtual solutions to manage the replication and availability of critical data. Over the past several years, we have seen a tremendous growth in virtualization in many facets, operating system, network and storage to name a few. Virtualization has opened many opportunities for System Administrators replicate data over short and long distances in the form of images at the same time cut the amount of bandwidth and time constraints from traditional legacy methods.
Virtualizing tape libraries in the form of a VTL for disk – disk to tape backups is a very efficient use of resources. This allows Backup Administrators to easily plan, scale and administer new and existing solutions. Many organizations today are faced with regulatory compliances initiatives, such as SOX, HIPPA or GERPA to account and protect their data. These organizations often test their backups and schedule routine “fire drills” in which they attempt to restore their production environments offline or offsite. These isolated events turn into disaster when the controlled server fire is unmanaged and spreads rapidly to other parts of the data center, which results into a complete uncontrolled datacenter burn. Many systems are lost and if precautions are not attended to prior to the DR drill, an entire company can be wiped out in a matter of hours. Years of corporate data is lost and thousands of employees are out of work. This has a major impact on the economy. Unemployment rises which effects business and the local economy. When people are out of work, they look for other cost cutting measures. For example, they may turn off their heat and start burning wood to heat their home. Again, were back to burning. The emissions that are let out into the atmosphere from a wood burning fire place is unhealthy for the environment. Medical studies has shown that the emissions from a uncertified wood stove is 700 times riskier than that of a gas heated system.
Dr. Joel Schwarts stated “Particulate pollution is the most important contaminant in our air. …we know that when particle levels go up, people die. ” (Joel Schwartz, Ph.D., Harvard School of Public Health, E Magazine, Sept./Oct. 2002). This is serious business and should not be treated lightly. Because wood is heavy. This is primarily why Saw Mills use Semi Trucks to haul limbers down from the forest. When they cut down the tree’s, they are generally healthy tree’s that have matured to a state where they contribute to the environment. It is good to have trees. They clean our air. Big businesses however come in and partner with the saw mills to clear out these trees which help the environment to build factories and plants that pollute the air. So not only are we destroying the planet, we are contributing to the destruction of mankind through rapid growth and over population. Animals are loosing their homes. By destroying the livelihood of natures beasts, this results into a cataclymistic series of events because animals need to find alternate means to survive. Since most animals are dumb, by nature, they will die, resulting in loss revenue for fur coat manufactures. Because their fur is scrap at this point.
In conclusion, I feel that big business is bad for the economy.
