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Disaster Recovery Planning
It's All About Power
5/1/2008
As the Data Center Goes, So Goes the School
Dick Bednar, senior IT director at California State University, Fullerton, says that even though his campus has a generator that will keep the data center and PBX in operation ("as long as we keep putting diesel in"), nobody will be able to work in any of the other buildings, since they won’t have power.
But the fact that all the services delivered from that data center will remain up is the reason why backup emergency power is now so vital to a college or university. Geographic or physical location of workers accessing that data has become of lesser importance. After all, even if a school’s offices can’t stay open due to a power outage on the property, many people still can work from home via the internet. As long as the electricity keeps flowing to those other locations, a university’s work can keep humming along.
::WEBEXTRAS ::
Disaster Recovery: Personal and Up Close. Many disaster recovery plans ignore the human aspect.
It's All About Risk. The shootings at Virginia Tech are a textbook example of the need for business continuity management.
Dian Schaffhauser is a writer who covers technology and business. Send your higher education technology news to her at dian@dischaffhauser.com.
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