Enterprise Resiliency & Application Recovery Real Life Chronicle of Two IT Departments During Hurricane Sandy Superstorm Sandy, a hurricane combined with a powerful nor'easter, struck the East Coast in late October 2012. It was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of 2012, as well as the second-costliest hurricane in U.S. history. This is the story of how productivity and preparedness paid-off for a prominent healthcare provider and
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A world class medical center located in New York City evaluated its IT landscape and began a two-year transformation. The initial strategy was designed to help refresh their technology, set priorities and determine the
A prominent East Coast university with a complex hybrid environment implements SunGard’s Managed Recovery Program (MRP) for comprehensive life cycle management of IT disaster recovery.
strategy. While the hospital has its own on-site datacenter, it also hosts production applications in SunGard’s Carlstadt, New Jersey facility.
During the first 5 months of onboarding, SunGard observes the university’s annual IT application testing and gathers information about its complex environment
data is a high priority for this healthcare customer- and while they use cloud technology internally, they decided not to go that route for backing up mission-critical data.
the university would send 40 people to their colocation facility to exercise its recovery plans losing an entire IT sprint cycle in the process.
According to a recent survey conducted by Aberdeen Group, the top 2 pressures leading to BCDR initiatives are:
Risk of Business Interruption
72%
Cost of Downtime
44%
According to the same survey, the average cost per hour of downtime was over:
$163,000