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IT Continuity Fundamentals

Availability, continuity, recovery: three questions, three architectures

Understand why a cluster is not a recovery plan, why availability and continuity are not designed at the same moment, and how to derive technical objectives from a business BIA instead of inventing them.

Learning objectives

  • Distinguish high availability, continuity and recovery
  • Derive technical RTOs from business RTOs
  • Position ICT readiness within the overall arrangements
  • Recognise architectures and their limits

Intended audience

  • Infrastructure teams
  • Architects
  • Project managers
  • CISOs

Prerequisites

  • None

Detailed curriculum

Module 1

Three different questions

What each arrangement addresses, and what none of them addresses.

Module 2

What technology does not settle

Entitlements, external dependencies and documentation: the three non-technical failure causes.