The importance that IM&T has gained within Trusts over recent years is based simply on the fact that it is central to most work processes. To loose the IM&T server infrastructure would simply bring the Trust effectively to a stop.
It is therefore important to plan for this eventuality. Owing to the way we at Intellidata offer our support services we have devised a simple low cost solution to provide Disaster Recovery services. It makes sense to have this activity included in your support package.
It is generally accepted that having an IM&T Disaster Recovery plan is a required action however from our experience in non acute IM&T areas such plans fail to materialise as demonstrable activities.
Intellidata realised some years ago that the only viable way to support server infrastructures within Trusts was to do so by having 'hot standby' spares in order that when faults presented we were able to rapidly deploy known good.
