Disaster Recovery: How quickly could your business get back up and running?

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

Businesses and services must ensure that they can operate even after disasters such as natural calamities, software corruption, crucial server failure, or human error. Failing to plan for disaster recovery could result in data loss, server downtime, financial losses, and regulatory compliance issues for companies.

This really does happen – it’s not just hyperthetical, and it’s not just for big multinationals.  A customer of ours recently had a server failure.  This could have meant that nobody in the busy company could do any work for perhaps 3 days, while the data was recovered and copied to a new server, and everything set up again…

In fact, due to the Disaster Recovery Appliance box this client had in place, they were running as normal within 2-3 hours.  A massive difference!

We recommend a Disaster Recovery Appliance box

What is a disaster recovery appliance and how does it differ from a disk backup product?
The intent of disk backup is to have a quick, easily accessed copy of the data in question. In other words, you can still see your data.  But, a backup simply means an additional copy of your data, nothing else.  It is just stored data.
One still needs to be able to manipulate and process this data with hardware, applications, etc. For example, removable storage media can hold backup data, but it is worthless unless it can be connected to the processing hardware.
A disaster recovery appliance, on the other hand, takes this concept a step further and provides this data for processing.  It usually includes the necessary infrastructure to process data quickly. The hardware and applications that process the data are available and ready to process.  In other words, you can carry on working.

Do you have this cover?

If you could benefit from having a disaster recovery appliance in your business, or if you’re not sure what you have in place at the moment, contact us, and we’ll help you find the right solution.

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