ABSTRACT

Options for Completing the Plan It is not always difficult or expensive to accomplish many disaster recovery planning tasks. Sometimes, in fact, resources are right under your nose. Consider all of those old mainframe recovery plans that are still out there. When you look at them, or even at some plans that predate mainframe plans, some interesting facts reveal themselves, chiefly:

Technology changes so quickly that it is virtually impossible to keep up. n Planning fundamentals, however, change very little. n What this means is that although the hardware requirements in mainframe n plans are useless, the planning fundamentals are still very useful.