Data Center World 2024

The data center plays an important role in any company. Quite frequently, they are not designed to survive unexpected events, and quite often a Disaster Recovery data center is unavailable, or the procedures to effectively cultivate a disaster-resistant in a decent amount of time aren't present.

This session will provide several illustrative examples in which companies learned the hard way about the importance of a Disaster Recovery strategy, the importance of having backups that can be restored when needed in a consistent manner, the importance of the location for a data center, needed redundancy of power energy sources, the critical role played by the operational team, and proper security access controls, just to name a few.

By attending this session, the audience will be aware of the different risk factors involved with running a data center, and how to effectively avoid or mitigate damage or operational downtime whenever disaster strikes.

Takeaway

The audience will learn from real-world examples how important it is to manage and maintain data centers in a planned way, to minimize the impact of service loss, as well as the importance of having a disaster recovery data center.

Examples provided will include:

• How a big Industrial company was offline for three days after a physical disaster caused by flooding into their main data center.
• How a Tier 1 telecom company was without service for two days after a cyberattack and took over 2 months to fully recover their services.
• Other critical lessons learned from disaster situations.