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Model 2.8: ANP BOCR - L.B. Foster Disaster Recovery Solution Selection

Short Description

The existing state of Disaster Recovery at L.B. Foster is basically a standard backup system, without Disaster Recovery or Business Continuity capabilities. The corporate headquarters in Greentree, PA is at minimal risk of damage from a disaster. Flooding and flash floods would not reach our datacenter, the western PA area is at low risk of most "Acts of God" weather related occurrences and man made/caused disasters are statistically rare. In addition, LBF has a high risk tolerance as demonstrated by the existing RTO objective of 7 days.

A major area of concern is the network design. There are multiple Single Points of Failure (SPOC) non-redundant critical network devices.

The impact of a disaster on the Greentree headquarters is extremely high. With the existing backup infrastructure and a seven day turn around on system recovery the loss of revenue, customer goodwill and the threat of punitive government measures the cost associated with a failure could ruin the company.

The objective of the Super Decisions model is to determine the best possible method for Disaster Recovery. The choices include make no changes to the existing system, build a LBF second (possibly two) datacenters in our existing remote locations, purchase new servers and networking equipment and lease datacenter space and lastly lease the network equipment and datacenter space.

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