Preparing Your Critical IT Infrastructure for a Storm

  • June 28, 2024

I want you to think about access to your data. So where is your data? And then how do you access it to do that? You've got to define where is the data, the data on a server, the data in a cloud somewhere, where is the data if our office is shut down or we don't have access to this data somewhere, how's that going to inhibit our work and then should we consider putting the data somewhere else so we can continue to work.

Let me give you a real example. I've got the data sitting on a server in my office.  Hurricane comes, knocks out the power.  I can't go to work and work on the server. I can't connect in remotely and work in the server, but all my data is in the office. I can't work. Hmm. Maybe I should pick up that data, move it up to the cloud, pick a cloud. I'm not going to worry about the cloud, pick the cloud. It's up now up in the cloud.

Now go to the same situation. Normally I go to the office to work,  but hurricane took out the power. Do I really care? I still have power at my home, or if I don't have power at my home, I have power at John's home. So I'll go over to John's house with my laptop.

And I can go ahead and use his internet and I can connect to my data in the cloud and I can still work. It's that simple. Just think about where is your data and how do you have access to it?

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