Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
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Engineering Recoverable Systems
Previous articles in this series examined the foundational services, state management systems, and dependency relationships that make disaster recovery possible. This article examines how those systems are engineered to tolerate failures, preserve state, and continue operating when components, services, or environments become unavailable. Operating Through Disruption Recovery rarely occurs all at once. As systems, dependencies,… Continue reading
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The Systems That Make Disaster Recovery Possible
Previous articles in this series established that disaster recovery is fundamentally a systems engineering problem. By the time disruption arrives, recoverability has largely already been decided. It is the cumulative result of decisions made long before the first failure occurs. In practice, those decisions define the technical substrate from which recovery must occur. Disaster recovery… Continue reading
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How Systems Break and How They Recover: The Architecture Behind Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
We began this series by defining Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) in What Must Survive: A Practical Look at Business Continuity in a World That Never Stops Failing, setting a contextual frame for survivability strategy. We then emphasized and explored how BCDR starts as a consideration of purpose and policy, not technology, in Defining… Continue reading
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Defining Survival: How First Principles Shape Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Early in the COVID pandemic, organizations rapidly transformed offices into software-based workplaces. In the process, something quietly revealing was happening inside the major public cloud platforms. This new operating model depended on remote access, including virtual desktops and collaboration platforms, while also stressing the infrastructure required to sustain it. But the cloud platforms did not… Continue reading
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What Must Survive: A Practical Look at Business Continuity in a World That Never Stops Failing
Years ago, I helped leaders at a large bank update their company’s business continuity strategy. To them, safeguarding operations was not a contingency plan. It was another way of honoring the trust their customers placed in them. This unique company, legendary for customer service, also functioned with a command-and-control sensibility that shaped its culture, its… Continue reading