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Our Disaster
Recovery and Business Continuity Planning service prepares
you so your business can recover from a major incident such
as catastrophic loss of a server or even the whole network
domain. Every company should have a disaster recovery plan
in place yet few do. A fire, lightning strike or major
tornado could devastate your company with little or no
warning and leave you unable to conduct business. Disaster
Recovery Planning goes far beyond mere data backups. It is
details the complex task of being able to plan in advance so
you can quickly recover business-critical systems when faced
with an unexpected major incident. Without a Disaster
Recovery Plan, you could be faced with a prolonged and
expensive recovery phase or possible loss of your business
altogether.
Preparing a viable Disaster Recovery Plan
requires a special and highly detailed and methodical
approach. Many clients mistakenly think that having backups
of their data is all that is needed. If an actual major
incident were to occur, they would quickly realize that they
could be faced with serious technical and logistical
problems in getting their systems back up and operational.
In some cases these problems might be insurmountable and
could cause devastating loss to the business owner.
Techni-Core already has a mature Disaster Recovery Plan in
place for our corporation and we have made sure that it
works by carrying out simulations to provide us with proof
of concept.
The first stage of Disaster Recovery Planning
is an educational approach. This includes an introductory
presentation on the art and science of true Disaster
Recovery. Techni-Core will help you and your management team
understand what it really takes to get back on your feet in
the face of a major incident.
Techni-Core will then work with you to create
an actual written plan. Because Techni-Core’s focus is on IT
infrastructure, we will create a plan to show you what is
needed to recover your computing assets but we will also
help you identify other non-IT business assets that will
need to be included as well.
- Identify the types of disasters you should
be prepared for. This includes every type of incident
from the unthinkable (loss of building or key personnel)
to loss of servers and so on.)
- Characterize disasters and identify your
critical assets
- Quantify acceptable business downtime and
recovery windows
- Understand risk and disaster mitigation
methods
- Prepare your Disaster Recovery Plan
- Publish your Plan
- Test your Plan
- Routinely review your Plan
In the event of an IT
emergency, you should immediately call or page your assigned
Techni-Core NERD. Restoration of IT services falls under our
standard
On-Call IT Support Services. If you already have a
Disaster Recovery Plan in place Techni-Core's Emergency
Response Team can help you activate the plan and work with
you to recover your business systems. If you do not have a
plan in place, we will assess your situation and determine
the best way to recover your systems. Note that
system recovery without a Disaster Recovery plan is likely
to take longer, be more expensive and some data or systems
may not be fully recoverable.
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