Abstract:
Large scale disasters highlight the need to protect and quickly restore mission critical data. A conceptual analysis of articles published from 1999 to 2006 forms the basis for a decision support tool, designed for IS Managers of medium sized enterprises, who need to understand asynchronous WAN replication options. The tool, to be used during business continuity planning, explores the pros, cons, functionality and cost of replication technologies including: file, snapshot, CDP, Block and Byte replication.