On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:00:53 -0500, Jeffrey Deaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In a SHARE presentation I was at last year concerning data replication, >someone mentioned that there were certain European countries with >regulations that stated certain companies (financial?) had to test their >BCP plans by actually failing over to their secondary data centers and >running production there for awhile. > >Does anyone have any additional information on this? > AFAIK , this is not true Like Bale II directives ( banking mainly) , there are recommendations . You follow them or not . It is up to your company management . Some shops decided to run the way you describe, because it was the easiest manner to provide proofs of BCP actual testing ( proofs and procedures are definitely an obligation for banks) . The same rumor was going on for the distance between sites but no numbers were ever actually given . Of course i do not know the rules for each countries but generally the rules are very similar all over Europe. Bruno Sugliani zxnetconsult(at)free(dot)fr ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
