Queensland Airports look to cloud for DR

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Queensland Airports looks to cloud for DR - Networking - Technology - News - iTnews.com.au

[h=2]Takes disaster recovery off-site.[/h]
Housing your disaster recovery solution on the same site as your production systems can leave you exposed to a substantial degree of risk - especially when operating under threat of tsunami, cyclone or even terrorism.
Such was the issue faced by Queensland Airports, a regional consortium that operates four airports at Townsville, Longreach, Mount Isa and the Gold Coast.
Until recent months, the consortium replicated data from its corporate information systems - which include finance systems, records management (SharePoint), email (Exchange) and remote access (Citrix) - between server rooms in buildings located 1.5 km apart on either side of Gold Coast Airport.
Even in the case of an internet outage, the airport's DR site would be as lost as the production data centre, according to Queensland Airports' group ICT manager Peter Nelson told iTnews.