The White Space Between Business Continuity and Technology Decision Making
By John Merryman
Partners HealthCare
During the e-commerce boom of the 1990’s, the IT vendor message related ‘high availability for critical web services’ to just about every type of product available. By the time the e-commerce boom imploded in the frame of ‘a web year’, the technology industry scrambled to re-brand, re-tool, and re-hype the product lineup for the next major industry buzz. After the tragic events of 2001, the passé ‘high availability’ message was quickly reframed as ‘business continuance’. We are now assured that these ‘high availability’ IT products, including networks components, servers, systems management software, disk storage, & backup software now provide business continuance. In addition to this, we are now bombarded by best practices, methodologies, and master techniques from vendors, old and new, who have supposed expert knowledge in the discipline of business continuity. This article will seek to identify the logical flow of technology decision making for disaster recovery, versus the technology | | Continued... to view the rest of this article and thousands like it, please create a FREE account from one of the options below.
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