Disaster Recovery

What is Disaster Recovery?

Disaster Recovery is the co-ordinated process of restoring systems, data and infastructure required to support key ongoing business operations.

Typical Response to Disaster Recovery is to have a System Recovery.

- But what Systems?

- Recovered to where?

- Isn’t that what backups are for? 

“Systems” include both hardware and software.

“Data” includes true data, log files and audit information, as well as ‘business knowledge’ (e.g. procedures and business rules).

“Infastructure” includes phones, office space, remote access, intranets, websites etc.

“Business Operations” are the things that your business does on a daily basis to generate revenue.

Typical Approaches to Disaster Recovery

Hot Sites

This is a backup site location where an organization can easily relocate following a disaster.

- Need to maintain redundant environments

- Replication or restore from current site

- A true ‘Hot Site’ is generally the most expensive and fastest to recover in the event of a disaster.

Disaster Recovery Facilities and Services Providers

- Cost is ‘fixed’ over lenght of contract.

- Hardware configuration issues can be common

- Possible bandwidth/accessibility issues

‘We will just restore from backups’

- Where will the restore occur?

- Are you sure the backups are good?

- Will the data from disparate systems be in sync?

- Will the equipment be compatible?

- What about remove access, network bandwidth and data security?

- What about running the business?

These are just some of the issues you should consider when thinking about Disaster Recovery Services. Contact us here at Savenet Solutions to find out more about our Disaster Recovery Service.