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Some of the hot discussion in my organization is about IT Governance and cloud computing. What is the  impact of the cloud on IT Governance? What effect does the emergence of the cloud have on IT strategic investements? It's important when talking about such topics to take a deep time and understand the principals element of IT Governance. This post will talk about the definition of IT Governance, its principales and processes. From a definition point of view, you can resume IT Governance to important questions: What decisions to be made ? Who is accoutable for making decisions? How will the decisions be made? IT Governance aims  to align IT investment with the hole entreprise strategy and works to ensure few principales: Ensure IT is aligned with business. Ensure IT delivers value to the business. Ensure IT manages risks. Ensure IT manages resources. Ensure IT manages performances. So your IT decisions should be aligned to the Entrepr...

When I was working on the first part of disaster recovery project in my organization and in order to develop our Business continuity strategy, I used to read some books and posts about business continuity and DR topics. Some of the very important web site was http://www.iso27001standard.com/en . I was subscribed to the newsletter and I was received 6 important posts about how to start your business continuity project. In this post I will share with you these 6 steps which I believe they are very important and efficient. For sure, if you want additional information, I suggest to do the inscription to the newsletter.  Below the 6 steps to follow in order to lunch your Business continuity project. Step #1 - Define scope and objectives Step #2 - Decide which framework you'll use Step #3 - Determine the necessary resources Step #4 - Get your management buy-in Step #5 - Decide how to approach the imple...

After dialing with Business Impact Assessment and defined your right RTO and RPO value for each critical applications, you can have a very well view about the right failover site for your organization. In this post I will present the different type of failover site which can be right for your disaster recovery site. We can define  four type of failover site : 1- Mirrored site 2- Hot site 3-  Warm site 4-  Cold site 1- Mirrored site     Instantaneously recovers a company’s mission critical applications from a disaster.     Site resides in a geographically distinct data center.     Maintain identical pairs of servers, networks, storage devices.     Most expensive. 2- Hot site     All infrastructure components are prepared, running and ready.       Full duplication of all data and systems.       System configuration a...

It’s very important when starting working on IT project to define the right scope for your mission. I was working these days on DR (Disaster Recovery) project and I have been talked to many colleagues from different departments: Business unit, quality assurance, Audit department and of course IT department. What I have remarked when explaining the need for a Business continuity plan is that every concerned person see only his related scope and  did not have the attitude of general or global vision to the scenario. In fact, when dealing with such kind of project, it’s important to forget your current job and see the problematic from a general perspective. It’s sure for all of the organization that any business process is based usually on business  Application and that each application need resources and infrastructure to run and turn up. Defining  the relationship between your business applications and your IT infrastructure is...