Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning
DR and BCP are critical to business, but far too often, overlooked or ear-marked as a "nice to have". The successful business anticipates the unexpected and plans for it.
Disasters can be defined as anything that result in inability to use core IT infrastructure or electrical systems, e.g. fire, sewage leak, acid or gas leaks, burst water mains, natural disasters, data corruption, theft of data or equipment, virus infection, hacker intrusions and so forth. The results are always the same: Market share loss, real dollar loss, staff layoffs and on occasion, insolvency.
Key Questions to ask of your business
In the event of a natural disaster, serious virus infection, theft of equipment, electrical failure or other major failure:
- To what capacity, can business units function without core IT Systems?
- How long until core operations are running again?
- How much in real dollars will it cost the business per day?
- How much market share will be lost?
- How old is the most current backed up data: (1 day, 4 hours, 10 minutes)?
- Is there a warm site?
- How many staff will be laid off and for what timeframe?
OsBTI DR & BCP Services
Document stage: Know your IT Systems front to back, document the build process, application and infrastructure details. Know yourself.
Planning stage: Identify key risk areas, build and maintain the disaster recovery plan, identify key business processes and their bottom line cost per day when down. Link business processes to core applications, map applications to IT Infrastructure. Outline recovery steps to take for each key risk area.
Preventive measures: Review, design & implement operational IT systems that marry with and exceed maximum accepted downtime across key risk areas.
Server & Co-location Hot swap Service
OsBTI provides a hot-swap server replacement, repair recovery process for a low fixed monthly fee. This service is designed for Small to Medium enterprises in the event of one or more server failures. It is designed to meet the requirement of business where the 8 to 48 hour turn-around time from hardware warranty is not sufficient.
Disaster Recovery - Business Benefits
- Protect market share, minimum financial loss, improve mean time to repair
- Same-day replacement service
- Comply with risk management and business continuity regulatory compliance requirements
- Improved data security practices
