F5's Kevin Hohenbrink: Data Replication Disaster Recovery, Part 2

10:26 | Michael Johnson | Feb 13th, 2007 7:31am |

Kevin Hohenbrink, product manager at F5 Networks, discusses Business Impact analysis and its importance in a data disaster recovery strategy. Hohenbrink is the optimization manager for the WANJet, F5’s appliace-based data compression and accelerator tool. This is the second of a two part interview. This is an F5 podcast.

Part one here.

Transcript:
Host: Michael Johnson - PodTech
Guest: Kevin Hohenbrink - F5 Networks

Michael Johnson - PodTech
This is Part 2, in our discussion with F5 Networks’ Kevin Hohenbrink, talking about Data Replication, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity and how F5 Networks’ WANJet product can help?

Now, one term that’s floating out there is business impact analysis. Now, how is this important to the overall Business Continuity and the Disaster Recovery Plan?

Kevin Hohenbrink - F5 Networks
Sure, an enterprise to undertake a business impact analysis to map their dependencies between critical business operations and the people resources applications and physical IT assets that they rely upon. In today’s environments, business process rely on multiple integrated applications, database and storage systems and so on. So, in order to restore a business process in the event of a disruption, you have to be certain replicating and coordinating the recovery ...