Duration
2 days
Introduction
This course illustrates the impact that new technologies have on the IT/DR Professional's role in delivering recovery solutions that best meet increasing demands from service contracts and regulatory requirements. Additionally, through lecture and via examples, attendees will explore selecting strategic alternatives for IT/DR processes; building, testing, and implementing the new IT/DR process; and integrating the BCM and IT/DR functions within an organization.
Who Should Attend
This two-day course is for business continuity professionals who want to learn how to develop and manage an Information Technology/ Disaster Recovery (IT/DR) program.
Training Syllabus
Introduction: IT/DR Planning with New DR technologies:
- Introductions
- Definition of IT/DR Terms
- IT/DR Planning with New DR Technologies
- Why we create IT/DR Plans
- T/DR Technologies the Participant will learn
- Single and Multiple Site Problems
Module 1: How to create an IT/DR Project Plan and Gain Management Approval
- Formulating tasks and milestones
- Determining deliverables
- Management approval
- Exercise: Develop an IT/DR project plan
Module 2: Performing a Risk Assessment (RA) and Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
- Risk Assessment and BIA (brief discussion)
- Business area requirements and interdependencies on IT (applications, data storage, network, systems, etc.)
- Recovery Objectives (RTO and RPO)
- Prioritizing applications, servers and systems by RTO and RPO
- Exercise: Develop a BIA subset document specifically for IT
Module 3: Selecting an IT/DR Strategy (Filling the Gap)
- Data backups and restoration options
- Platform recovery options (Systems/Servers and Domains (VMs, LPARs, etc.))
- Network recovery options
- Exercise: Develop an IT Strategies document
Module 4: Developing IT/DR plans
- IT/DR Plan Table of Contents
- Exercise: Develop an IT/DR Plan
Module 5: Intro to New IT/DR Technologies and How They Impact IT/DR Recovery Times
- The Evolving DR Professional's Role
- Overview of DR Technologies
- The physical and virtual DR processes
- Types of "cloud" environments and services
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
- Hyper convergence Technologies
- Software defined environments and data centers
- Cloud computing and networks
- Managing DR and virtual environments
- Exercise: Define a Recovery Technique, formulate a recovery planning strategy and provide a cost/benefit analysis
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.