Disaster Recovery

Your data is your currency in today’s marketplace. Maintaining business continuity and recovering from disasters quickly and completely is vital. Consider a potential catastrophic cyber event. Would you know where to find critical business and technology recovery information and artifacts? Under high-stress scenarios, it can become a real logistical nightmare to recover your data.

Because a disruption to even a single service might adversely affect business, a comprehensive Disaster Recovery (DR) plan is essential in minimizing downtime and preventing data loss in the face of disaster. A majority of organizations include data integrity and backups in their DR plans, but consider these other critical areas that if compromised could take critical services and business processes offline and put your business at risk, such as network and internet connectivity, physical security, telecom infrastructure, and HVAC systems.

The key to minimizing downtime and data loss are redundant technologies that allow you to rely on a secondary source of power, additional copies of data, or failover infrastructure — but building these out yourself can be quite costly. Therefore given budget constraints, it’s important to establish priorities, develop a plan that allows for acceptable level of risk, and consider managed and cloud DR services to reduce your CapEx spend.