Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning

Are you prepared for a loss or corruption of your vital business data and equipment?Disaster Recovery Planning

Do you have the plans, procedures, and the resources to recover from the impact of a man-made or a natural disaster? Working from your business needs perspective, BusinessWays offers your organization a variety of options, and solutions, from the simplest to the most complex. In many cases, the cost of devising and implementing a plan is a lot less costly than what you might think.
                                                                                                                                           
Here are some of the areas we can help you evaluate, determine and execute: 

  •  Assess your business tolerance to down time: Do information systems have to be up within a few minutes, hours, or days? This will determine your disaster recovery strategy.
  •  Do you have the backup systems (hardware, software, power, cooling, and connectivity) in place to keep the business running?
  • Who is the disaster recovery plan administrator? and have you defined the disaster recovery team roles and responsibilities?
  •  Consider all potential risks, such as natural disasters, bad weather, insider threats and physical, as well as cyber attacks.
  •  Are backups automatic and done in periodic intervals for essential data? Keep backups off site.
  •  Compile a contact list for you key associates, business partners, contractors, consultants and vendors and make it available on-line and in hard copy.
  •  Place servers in an off-site data centers, if possible.
  •  Establish quick-ship programs with vendors to get the equipment you might need to replace to get back in operation.
  •  Plan for remote access to you information in case you can't work onsite.

For information about the difference between Disaster Recovery and Busines Contunuity, click here

Remote Backup Solutions

Remote backup works like regular data backup, but with one important difference. Instead of sending the data backup to a tape drive or other media attached to your computers, data is sent securely to remote server in highly redundant data centers over the internet. This is usually done at night while computers are not being used. Backups can also be done on-demand, any time, automatically. In fact, you may even forget it is working.
 
Most businesses put their business on the line every night and don’t realize it. With businesses becoming increasingly dependent on the data stored in their computers, proper backups are becoming much more critical.