WHY BOTHER WITH RECOVERY TIME?

Providers of information services deal with production schedules, service level agreements and other customer obligations on a daily basis. As a provider, you also are concerned with recovery time--you know processing disruptions will occur. However, are your users aware of how long recoveries could take and their business responsibilities in the recovery process? Do they know how long you have for recovery? Will both you and your users find out these answers after a disastrous event? If you do, it will be too late.

Given recent events, many installations have been reviewing their IS recovery arrangements. To assist in this process, BMC Software, Inc. of Houston, Texas, has issued a white paper titled, "Why Bother With Recovery Time?". The paper is written by Barney Pelant, founder of Barney Pelant Associates of Bloomingdale, IL and is actually a chapter excerpted from a book, DB2 RECOVERY IN PRACTICE, first published in 1995 by BMC Software, Inc.

This paper takes a look at how a business can analyze the value of computer applications and the cost of an availability outage.

Copies may be obtained, free of charge, by writing, faxing, calling or sending an e-mail directly to: BMC Software, Inc.; Attn: Yolanda Avila; 2101 City West Blvd.; Houston, TX 77042 Please specify that you would like a copy of "Why Bother With Recovery Time?" Telephone: (713) 918-8800. Fax: (713) 918-5010. E-mail: yolanda_avila@bmc.com