{"id":11579,"date":"2023-11-07T13:21:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T03:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=11579"},"modified":"2023-11-07T13:21:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T03:21:26","slug":"coming-soon-a-book-about-recovery-for-busy-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2023\/11\/07\/coming-soon-a-book-about-recovery-for-busy-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon: A book about recovery for busy people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In June I decided to start tallying how many meetings I do. In this, I should preface that I only attend the meetings I have to. At the end of each month now I note the running tally of meetings I participated in (vs meetings I accepted \u2013\u00a0some meetings, after all, don’t go ahead, or get moved).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June, I did 135 of 167 meetings accepted. July was quiet, with just 78 of 93 meetings. August: 93 of 107. September was 96 of 110. October was a little busy again, at 116 of 136 meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So in five months that’s I’ve been in 518 meetings of 613 accepted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And since the most meetings I tend to do a Monday is 3, you can bet that means somedays I have double-digit meetings. (My current maximum is 14 in a day. I’m hoping not to beat it any time soon.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which means learning how to dance in the cracks in time between meetings to get my action items done, since a lot of those action items come from meetings in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I say this all because I know what it’s like to be busy. Hell, I don’t even describe myself as being busy any more when people ask \u2013 the answer is hectic<\/em>, because in the modern IT world, hectic seems more apropos to describe a $dayjob than just plain-old busy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And somehow, after all those meetings ended each day, I got to thinking: what does a busy IT manager or worker need to know \u2013 really know about data protection in order to shepherd their business through a data recovery scenario?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is why I wrote The Busy IT Manager’s Guide to Data Recovery<\/a><\/strong>. Like any book about recovery, this is about learning what you need to do in order to ensure you can recover, but the emphasis is pretty much 100% on what you have to do to get to that point. And it is very much to the point<\/em>; I’m not kidding when I say it’s aimed at people who are busy \u2013\u00a0this is the chapter list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Introduction<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Understanding Data Resilience<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Enabling Recoverability<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Building Recovery into Cyber Resilience<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Wrapping Up<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    It really is brief and to the point for anyone who can’t decide whether their job is busy<\/em> or hectic<\/em> but is somehow still either responsible<\/em> or accountable<\/em> for data recoverability within their organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    It’s due out December 6, which is now less than a month away! Here’s a discount code you can use until December 31, 2023:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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