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Need to Interview IT Professional Regarding Disaster Recovery Planning

Hello all,

I am currently working on a research paper regarding Disaster Recovery planning. As a part of that, I need to interview someone who has been directly involved with disaster recovery planning and implementation. I have 17 questions ready that can be completed by email. I can trim it down if necessary. An IT manager or someone else who has real world experience in this subject is what I'm looking for.

Thank you in advance!

Brad Walker
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you would probably find it would be better to post the actual questionaire here so that you are abiding by the membership agreement
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1.      Would you consider Disaster Recovery planning to be important for businesses and why?
2.      What types of businesses should have a Disaster Recovery plan and why?
3.      What types of Disaster Recovery planning and implementation have you done in your own business?
4.      What network related items do you consider as being mission critical to protect in your own company and for businesses in general?
5.      What could be the potential implications of a business not having a disaster recovery plan? Could you relate that to your own business?
6.      Are there any types or sizes of businesses where a disaster recovery plan wouldn’t be important? Please explain.
7.      In your opinion, what areas of IT must be considered in a DR plan? Please explain.
8.      Who is best fit to write a DR plan and whose advice should be taken into account?
9.      Has a disaster recovery plan ever been a life saver for you or anyone else that you know in the industry? If so, how did the plan help?
10.      What disasters do you think would be the most likely to cause havoc to your businesses IT infrastructure?
11.      If a major disaster just affected your business, how do you think your businesses IT infrastructure would look now and a month from now?
12.      Would people at your company be able to work if a disaster prevented them from reaching the office and if so, how would they work?
13.      What technologies help you protect critical data in your business?
14.      Does your company spend money on DR planning and implementation and if so what percentage of the IT budget does it take?
15.      Is it money well spent and would you like to see more or less spent?
16.      Would you like to see the money spent elsewhere instead? Please explain.
17.      What advice would you give to an IT manager who was just tasked with creating a DR plan?
I just need one person to complete all of these so if someone was willing to answer these questions, maybe we could swap email addresses?
Entire books have been written about this subject, and I think this would require a paper of 10 + pages to answer them sufficiently...   or do you just want a brief response?
Hi Fatal_Exception. 10 pages is definitely more than I need here. I think straight and to the point answers would be great. For instance, number 13 can be answered with technologies used but not an explanation of the technologies. If you think any of the questions warrant more than that, I'll leave that to your discretion.


I havent forgotten you either, just off site, back soon and will help where i can
Awesome. The answers can either be posted here or sent to <<Email address removed by by Page Editor>>.
IF you still need help with the questions i could help you a bit, i'm currently working at a firm that creates products for storage and disaster recovery.
Hi tomerlei. For the purpose of my paper, I need the interviewee to have real world experience with disaster recovery planning. Like someone who has worked with their companies management to make sure the business is protected in the event of a disaster. I also need all the questions to be answered briefly by one individual. If this sounds like you, I would be grateful for the help.
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Hi Jay_Jay70-I wasn't trying to violate any rules. I had setup a temporary email so I could get the answers sent to me. I'll keep this in mind in the future.

Fatal_Exception-Thank you very much for your help. This is exactly what I was looking for, however before closing this out, I sent you a short question relating to the interview for my research paper. I sent it to you as I don't want to post any personal information on the boards. Thanks again.
Thats fine mate, no stress, just following rules :-)

Sorry I havent responded, crazy day yesterday, looks like you have been looked after anywayz :)

James
Not much of a response, as I know that I could add much more content, but just find time an issue right now...  but hope it helped in some small way!
i had just copied those questions as well and was writing, will post up anyway
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Fatal_Exception, brief answers is what I was looking for. Your answers are a big help. Thanks again!

James, thanks for following up. My companies office recently relocated which was extra (long weekend) fun for the IT staff so I know how busy days can be too.  :)

Thanks everyone!
Pleasure mate, all the best with it!
Hi James, I didn't see your latest post when I graded the answer. Thanks for taking the time to answer the questions. I requested to have the question re-opened so I can reallocate some of the split points.

Once again thanks to Fatal_Exception and Jay_Jay70 for your help.

-Brad
No stress mate, all is well :)
Thankyou
Yes, thanks and best of luck with your studies!

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