📋 Tender Overview
Project : ITC-001-08
Project Description : The first stage of good Disaster Recovery Planning is Prevention. In other words, taking steps to prevent significant outages in the IT Infrastructure. For the last several years we have strived to improve the availability of our critical systems by adding redundancy and backups to various IT infrastructure components. During this time the Corporation has also become more dependent on technology, which is consistent with other sectors. There does exist capital funding for some of this work in project ITC-006-07 and the focus has been on being able provide a reliable and highly available computing facility and a place to hold a backup of our data off site in the event of a disaster. Significant effort has also been made on improving the quality and consistency of our backup environment, which is critical to stage 2 of the process, which is the ability to restore the environment if we do lose it for some reason. Business Continuity Planning is a larger goal of ensuring that plans are in place to keep the Corporation's mission critical functions operating before, during and after a major catastrophe. This would be a much broader corporate initiative that would require significant resources both internal and external to not only develop but also ongoing resource dedication and operating expenditure to test and maintain on a regular cadence. The amount of resources dedicated to this type of planning should be proportionate to the impact that an outage would have on the business. For example, in a large financial or manufacturing organization where even a small amount of downtime will result in significant financial loss or loss of faith by investors then there should be a corresponding significant investment in ensuring the business has very minimal downtime and also has plans in place on how to continue to operate during these times. For organizations that are not at significant risk when systems fail then a more practical approach is reasonable since the increased resources required to develop and maintain Business Continuity Plans does not provide the same value.
