Disaster recovery is an essential service for EDF with Phenix-IT
Summary
For French power generation utility EDF, the efficiency and reliability of its business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) plans, and the technology they rest upon, go way beyond the organisation – they extend to the functioning of the country itself. In this article, we look at how EDF build its BC/DR provision across the entire organisation, to cover potential outages in its datacentres, cyber attacks, and even the once-a-century likelihood of major flooding around Paris. Since its launch 12 years ago, Phenix-IT has evolved hugely, with numerous areas of functionality added to the original application jointly with software provider Mega. “It is accessible by security staff to collect information and test the resilience of IT systems in quiet times.” Phenix-IT was developed on a now-obsolete version of the Mega platform which had become increasingly costly to maintain. Outside times when DR exercises are running, those responsible for crisis management in EDF connect via the tool to deliver analyses, including between IT and the business.
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