Can a capacity management plan aid in disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) efforts?
This is a hot topic, especially with Hurricane Katrina and some of the other events that have recently happened. There are a lot of businesses that are redoubling there efforts to get their data offsite. Just to recap, if you have an idea of what your data is valued, you know where your data is and you know what your data is, then you essentially have a really giant head start in developing a plan. If your data is not valued very much and you can recreate it easily, you don’t really need to spend that much money on disaster recovery and business continuity. On the other hand, if you’re a 3D animation house that spends thousands of man hours creating unique models, it’s probably a good idea that you get that data offsite. So capacity management will help you when it comes to how much of the data you currently have stored in your business that you actually need to take offsite. It will help you drive down to a specific cost of taking that data offsite and keeping your business running in
