Business Continuity Management in Data Center Environments

In this article, the authors discuss how business continuity methodologies can be used by data centerstorespondtonaturaldisasters,man-madedisasters,andaccidents.Becauseorganizations dependoncomputingservices,whichmaybecomeunavailablewhendisastersstrike,prudentrisk managementprocessescanprovideforcontinuationandrecoveryofoperations.Withafocuson datacenters,thisarticlediscussesthebusinesscontinuityplandevelopmentprocess.Thisarticlealso considerselementsofabusinesscontinuitymanagementplan,whichincludesstrategydevelopment, preparedness, mitigation, exercises, and response and recovery, and discuss business continuity strategiesforcolocationandcloud-baseddatacenterarchitectures.Finally,theauthorsdiscusshow theorderedweightedaverage(OWA)methodologycanbeusedtoincorporateadecisionmakersrisk profilewhenconfrontedwithdecisionsrelatedtotheprocessesdiscussed. KEywoRDS Business Continuity, Business Impact Analysis, Cloud Computing, Colocation, Data Center, Mitigation, Ordered Weighted Average, Preparedness, Recovery, Response, Risk Assessment, Strategy Development, Threats

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