{"658428":{"#nid":"658428","#data":{"type":"event","title":"(Scope Reduced) Disaster Recovery Exercise Scheduled June 10-12; Downtime to Banner Student System Expected","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Office of Information Technology will perform a data center failure simulation on the weekend of June 10 as part of its disaster recovery and preparedness plan.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe exercise includes taking down the \u003Cstrong\u003EBanner student information system\u003C\/strong\u003E, simulating an actual outage of the service, to assess each step of the recovery process. The simulation will begin at 6 p.m. on Friday, June 10, with a 24-hour test period.\u0026nbsp;This test period will end at 6 p.m. Saturday evening, at which time, a recovery period will begin. The recovery period runs for 24 hours, ending at 6 p.m. Sunday, June 12.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents, faculty, and staff should expect downtime and delays for Banner throughout the test and recovery periods.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPerforming\u0026nbsp;routine recovery drills is a best practice within disaster recovery planning and helps\u0026nbsp;to ensure the ongoing health of mission critical technology services and organizational readiness in the case of a real disaster. Disaster recovery planning is an essential component of the Institute\u0026rsquo;s overall emergency preparedness plan and helps to:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EMinimize disruption to academic instruction and operations during a large-scale event.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EEnsure coordinated training, collaboration, and preparation\u0026nbsp;among technical teams, functional owners, and communications staff.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EEnsure optimal restoration of services.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EEnsure compliance and alignment with the\u0026nbsp;University System of Georgia and Georgia Tech emergency preparedness plans.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPlans for future disaster recovery exercises are forthcoming.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUp-to-date progress will be shared via \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/status.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/status.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E during the 48-hour exercise window.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u2019s Office of Information Technology will perform a data center failure simulation on the weekend of June 10 as part of its disaster recovery and preparedness plan."}],"uid":"34822","created_gmt":"2022-05-23 16:47:44","changed_gmt":"2022-06-06 13:53:03","author":"Malynda Dorsey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2022-06-10T19:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2022-06-12T19:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2022-06-12T19:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2022-06-10 23:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2022-06-12 23:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2022-06-12 23:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"658430":{"id":"658430","type":"image","title":"Disaster Recovery","body":null,"created":"1653324888","gmt_created":"2022-05-23 16:54:48","changed":"1653324888","gmt_changed":"2022-05-23 16:54:48","alt":"disaster recovery plan","file":{"fid":"249601","name":"iStock-942835598.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/iStock-942835598.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/iStock-942835598.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":673139,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/iStock-942835598.jpg?itok=LNxEwSgn"}}},"media_ids":["658430"],"groups":[{"id":"174291","name":"OIT"},{"id":"64319","name":"Administration and Finance"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"183656","name":"oit feature"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}