> But I cannot convince management to go 10, 20, 50 miles, just because it feels "right". They want hard facts.
You need a BIA - Business Impact Analysis - to show how much it costs your business to be down. That then gets weighed against the cost of providing protection for certain disasters and that weighed against the possibility of any particular disaster happening in your area. Sounds simple, doesn't it. Its not. Its a HUGE undertaking that involves people who do this for a living and know how the risk analysis math works = actuaries. When I was getting into this and started talking to the risk managment folks we have I was amazed at how many aspects of it I had not thought of - I was concentrating on the IT recovery part of it, but there is a lot more that they have to consider. Start here -> http://www.drj.com/ to find consultants that could help. Jeffrey Deaver, Engineer Systems Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] 651-665-4231(v) 651-610-7670(p) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
