 Keeping your business critical data safe in the event of a disaster, corruption, or hardware failure is paramount to the survival of any business. Correctly planning and implementing a disaster recovery (DR) environment and strategy will ensure that your data remains safe and error free in any event.
Disaster recovery consists of much more than just backing up data to tapes. While computer hardware has become more resilient and computer systems have more built in redundancy than years ago, these only help in very specific types of disasters. These redundant systems may keep your data safe in the event of a hard disk or power supply failure but what about data corruption, fire, flooding, etc. In these situations without the correct planning, systems, and precautions your data may be at risk.
With many years of disaster recovery planning and analysis expertise for financial institutions, motor vehicle manufacturers, law firms, etc has given us a specialist overview of the best ways of protecting your data. Whether planning to replace your existing disaster recovery systems and strategies, or checking that your existing disaster recovery systems and management are, adequate we can help.
Things that we consider important when analysing a DR environment:
- Industry - Manufacturing, services, etc.
- Type of business - Are you a 9 to 5 type business or 24 by 7?
- Data security - Is the data being backup up of a confidential nature?
- Data Storage - Will the data be safe in the event of flooding, fire, etc?
- Location of data - Is the backed up data being stored offsite? If so by whom and how often?
- Backup Method - What type of device is used? Tape, data replication, Bare metal recovery, CD/DVD, etc
- Suitability - Do your backup schedule, disaster recovery methods, and processes suite your type of business?
- Recoverability - Every application requires different backup types to be able to recover the application and its data entirely.
- Time - How long does it take to backup and recover the data? How long can you afford to be without your data?
- Amount of data - How much data is being backed up?
- Change - How often does the data change?
By combining all of these aspects of your business we are able to streamline your backup environment to ensure the safety of your most precious asset... your data. Contact us
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