ITS247backup - BDR
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In today’s business
world, it is crucial to have a Business
Continuity Plan in place that gives your
company the ability to restore business
production in the event of a catastrophe
or disaster. A solid Backup/Disaster
Recovery (BDR) gives you this capability
to restore normal (or near-normal)
business operations, from a critical
business application perspective, after
the occurrence of a disaster that
interrupts business operations. It
requires that a company in production
has the ability to bring up
mission-critical applications and the
data these applications depend on and
make them available to users as quickly
as business requirements dictate. For
mission-critical applications that
demand minimal downtime, the disaster
recovery process must be based on a
highly automated and resilient solution
that will ensure production loss will be
at a minimum—such applications require
an intelligent application recovery
infrastructure.
also offers guidelines and best
practices around intelligent application
recovery to ensure the right
architecture is matched to the business
requirements at hand.
As with everything
else, determining how quickly you can
resume mission-critical operations and
the level of automation is always a
tradeoff between the business needs of
the corporation and the following
factors:
- Costs
- Abilities of
IT/IS staff to manage the disaster
recovery environment
- Existing levels
of administrator skill sets
- Concerns regarding
complexity of the disaster recovery
environment
In making this
determination, it is vital that business
interests are the driving factor:
What level of
disaster recovery does the business need
and can it be justified in business
terms? It should not be a decision on
what is thought to be affordable, or one
that is made by the IT/IS staff in a
vacuum without regard for the needs of
the business. The CEO of the company
has a fiduciary responsibility to the
board of directors and the shareholders
(in publicly held companies) and
investors (in privately held companies)
to properly protect the interests of the
business. Government agencies have a
moral (and in many cases, legal)
obligation to be sure that services are
always available. Part of protecting
business interests is ensuring that
there is a well-defined, documented, and
tested Disaster Recovery Plan for the
technology-based assets in place that is
part of a larger Business Continuity
Plan and program based on a thorough and
regularly updated Business Impact
Analysis.
Illustrated
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Business
Continuity Planning
- A proactive and ongoing
process that identifies the key
functions of an organization and the
likely threats to those functions. From
this information, plans and procedures
are developed, enabling the organization
to respond to a business interruption
incident and ensure that critical
processes can be maintained at a
pre-agreed-upon level of functionality.
Recovery
Requirements Definition/Business Impact
Analysis
- A process designed to
prioritize business functions by
assessing the potential quantitative
(financial) and qualitative
(non-financial) impact that might result
if an organization was to experience a
business continuity event.
Disaster/Event/Incident
- A sudden, unplanned
calamitous event causing great damage or
loss as defined or determined by a risk
assessment and BIA; Any event that
creates an inability on an
organization’s part to provide critical
business functions for some
predetermined period of time. The period
when company management decides to
divert from normal production responses
and exercises its disaster recovery
plan. Typically signifies the beginning
of a move from a primary to an alternate
location.
Significant
impacts can be some or all of the
following (but not limited to)
- Revenue loss
- The inability to recognize
revenue
- Loss of market share
- Potential litigation
- Brand damage
- Reduced customer
satisfaction
Disaster recovery,
in the broad sense, encompasses much
more than just the recovery of
Information Technology (IT) systems and
services (for example personnel
relocation, power and cooling, etc.);
however, disaster recovery and
application recovery more specifically
will be limited to recovery of
mission-critical applications.
’s
BDR solution is based in large part on
the ability to Virtualize your servers
and store that data offsite at an
affordable price giving you a complete
Business Continuity Plan and peace of
mind.
In the event of a
server failure, our equipment can
substitute for the failed server within
hours keeping your mission critical data
in production. Once the replacement
server has been ordered for the failed
server, we can do a “Bare Metal Restore”
of the existing server even to unlike
hardware. In the event of a disaster
such as fire, earthquake or any natural
disaster where your servers are
destroyed, we can have you up and
running within 48 hours as we can ship
the data and Operating servers shipped
next day and allowing you to get back to
business as usual.
Call us today and
see how
can assist you with
your Business Contingency Plans, after
all, how much are you willing to gamble
on your mission critical data?
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