ZOMBIE WAR SURVIVAL MANUAL

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1 ZOMBIE WAR SURVIVAL MANUAL TOP SECRET: PROPERTY OF THE U.N. PANDEMIC COMMISSION Availability Services

2 Zombie War/IT DR Survival Manual ZOMBIE WAR SURVIVAL & IT DISASTER RECOVERY MANUAL 0-1. INTRODUCTION A global pandemic of undead humans (aka zombies) reanimated by an incurable virus are overtaking cities in frenzied masses, consuming human flesh and destroying everything in their path. Militaries are engaged in a worldwide zombie war. Total population loss projections are mounting. Catastrophic damage to life and infrastructure appears imminent. THE ZOMBIE OUTBREAK JUST HAPPENED. WILL YOU SURVIVE? Have you thought about the implications of a zombie apocalypse on your IT Disaster Recovery (DR) plans? Do you have the ability to adapt to change, and quickly? Can you effectively manage your own data recovery? The objective of this manual is to ensure that you re recoverable in the event of a catastrophic event. And there s nothing more cataclysmic than warring masses of flesh-eating ghouls. 6

3 TAKE STEPS TO AVAILABILITY AND ZOMBIE WAR RECOVERY! 1. PROTECT YOUR DATA. Swarming masses of the undead will think nothing of trashing your data center in a mad scramble for the first spot in line at the brain buffet. If you don t back up your data at an off-site, secure location, you might as well just hand it over to the zombie hordes. Stockholm Polis cam 58 - Üllhe RECOVER YOUR SYSTEMS. In order to save your applications, you ll need a recovery environment that aligns with your production environment and is secure from invasion. In the wake of a zombie armageddon, you re going to need a solid change management plan, too PROTECT YOUR PEOPLE, PROCESSES & PROGRAMS. People the living ones will perform your recoveries. It s imperative that you provide a safe place for them to work and that they have the right skills to fit into your recovery plans. You re also going to need to keep your DR processes and programs maintained, too. These zombies are fast and famished, and you won t have time to figure out where things have failed. PARTNER WITH AN EXPERIENCED PROVIDER. The right alliances increase the odds of disaster recovery. Seek experts that can guarantee your chances of survivability. Solution providers can help create and manage your entire DR lifecycle, freeing you to focus on other important strategic initiatives, like keeping you and your business alive.

4 1. PROTECT YOUR DATA. Safeguarding your data from a zombie outbreak presents several challenges, especially if you re using tapes and trucks as your data protection strategy. Here s what you need to know: 1-1. Zombies can t kill what they can t capture. Transporting tapes to an off-site location for recovery purposes means you re going to run into throngs of hungry undead. Avoid them by moving to disk-based backup or even real-time data mirroring and replication It s time to re-think your RTO. Tape is cheap, but it also requires the longest recovery time due to formatting differences and rehydration requirements. These are not the walking dead you ve seen on TV. These zombies are swift, frantic and relentless, and will absolutely kill your recovery time objectives. Answer? Move to managed backup or vaulting services. Sec Cam E. 14th Ave Have a Plan B. Can t get away from tape? You can still significantly shorten recovery times through parallel processing. Speed tape-based recovery by storing OS copies offsite, and then have your provider configure the recovery hardware and restore your OS while they wait for tapes to arrive. CSU28 Crime Scene Unit B 346 Filmore St. Portland PD

5 2. RECOVER YOUR SYSTEMS. If you re running a Hybrid IT infrastructure, your applications likely have complex interdependencies. Heterogeneous environments like yours are difficult to manage under normal everyday conditions, let alone when a global zombie pandemic strikes. Here s what you need to do: 2-1. Learn from zombies and manage change. One thing about the undead they adapt. In order to stay one step ahead, you need to do the same. Change management is critical. Be sure to continually sync your production and recovery environments to avoid last-minute changes to your hotsite that significantly delay recovery Partial recovery can leave you stranded. Can you recover all three layers of application tiers - database, middleware, and web? If your answer is No, you re as vulnerable as failing to move your data to a secondary site and an easy target for the living dead. UNSC Exp. Vaccine app 2-3. Re-route to avoid zombie-affected areas. What happens if your network goes down? You need to review your core network design and establish potential failover routes. EU POP. OUTBREAK STAT - SECTOR E40

6 3. PROTECT YOUR PEOPLE, PROCESSES & PROGRAMS. Remember the 3 P s People, Processes, and Programs to recover the Pandemic Give power to the people. With packs of blood-thirsty savages causing widespread destruction in their frenetic quest for human flesh, you ll need to account for employees who are forced to work from remote locations. This means adopting telework strategies in addition to establishing a safe, dedicated workspace where your people and the data they are recovering can be kept sequestered. Hopefully, you ve established USS Nimoy - Deck cam 3 advanced communications to employees about disaster measures, including how to get to the data center, personal family evacuation plans, etc Keep processes current. Establish up-to-date runbooks and procedures based upon current production configurations, not old hypervisors, operating systems, or software patches. Keep employees out of harm s way by continually updating and auditing your mass communications tools as well as adopt alternative communication methods that zombies cannot destroy (e.g., two-way radios) Get with the program. Being surrounded by supercharged animated corpses is not the time to test your disaster recovery program. Maintain a constant state of readiness by ensuring post-test analyses are conducted and recommendations/best practices are integrated. Perform rigorous change management to avoid failure when the world comes crashing down.

7 4. PARTNER WITH AN EXPERIENCED PROVIDER. Wartime is not the time to adopt a lone wolf strategy. You ll need the right alliances to reach safety and recover fully. Here are the next steps you need to take: 4-1. Don t do it alone! Find complementary firepower to account for any gaps. The benefits of working with an expert to manage your disaster recovery program include improvements in recovery performance, increases in productivity and ability to focus on business value creation, cost savings, and a constant state of readiness Find the experts. When it comes to disaster recovery, it makes sense to partner with the very company who introduced it to the world 30 years ago. We service customers of all sizes it s no wonder that 50% of the world s Fortune 500 companies and 70% of Fortune 50 companies today trust SunGard to keep their IT environments up and running no matter what type of disaster, 1 including a zombie war Contact a SunGard specialist. Tel: (888) Share this with the world. Availability Services Fortune 500 Ranking, matched to the Global Ultimate DUNS company. Parent or Subsidiary are an AS customer.