Do your recovery plans include tasks to move your recovered data center from the hot site to the cold site and then return home? Most, if not all of the IT recovery plans we have reviewed DO NOT consider or document these segments of the recovery process.
Moving your data center from a hot site to a cold site and then to your rebuilt data center are monumental tasks in their own right. The impact of Hurricane Katrina will require many corporations to deal with this scenario first hand. Traditional hot site agreements permit recovering companies to stay in a hot site for six (6) weeks and in the cold site for up to 12 weeks. Tasks to move to the cold site should begin as soon as hot site recovery operations have…
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Michael Herrera
Michael Herrera is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MHA. In his role, Michael provides global leadership to the entire set of industry practices and horizontal capabilities within MHA. Under his leadership, MHA has become a leading provider of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery services to organizations on a global level. He is also the founder of BCMMETRICS, a leading cloud based tool designed to assess business continuity compliance and residual risk. Michael is a well-known and sought after speaker on Business Continuity issues at local and national contingency planner chapter meetings and conferences. Prior to founding MHA, he was a Regional VP for Bank of America, where he was responsible for Business Continuity across the southwest region.
