Disaster recovery: Venom IT is the total solution for all types of IT businesses

Disaster recovery: Venom IT is the total solution for all types of IT businesses

Disaster recovery is the process, policies and procedures related to preparing for recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure critical to an organization after a natural or human-induced disaster. Disaster recovery planning is a subset of a larger process known as business continuity planning and should include planning for resumption of applications, data, hardware, communications and other IT infrastructure. A business continuity plan (BCP) includes planning for non-IT related aspects such as key personnel, facilities, crisis communication and reputation protection, and should refer to the disaster recovery plan (DRP) for IT related infrastructure recovery / continuity.

Disaster Recovery success is having a realistic and well understood set of objectives that are based on the business needs. This involves planning and preparation, from the business impact analysis, to understanding and quantifying risks, to classifying and prioritizing applications and data for recoverability.

1. Business and IT need to be linked

Creating a Disaster Recovery plan is a compromise and while people are aware of best practices, they face issues related to cost.

2. There needs to be a Disaster Recovery plan

The Disaster Recovery plan needs to represent all functional areas within IT prior to, during, and after a disaster. It needs to include applications, networks, servers & storage.

3. Keep the Disaster Recovery Plan current

Needs to be part of the day-to-day operations of the IT environment and even though it is an exception, it should always be at the forefront of people’s minds. Once the Disaster Recovery plan is created, it needs to be maintained and updated every time an element within the IT environment changes.

4. Test the Disaster Recovery Plan

The Disaster Recovery plan needs to be tested regularly to ensure the business can recover the operation successfully and in a timely fashion. Disaster Recovery testing is a major challenge for most IT departments, but if recovery has not been tested all the way to the application level, it is very likely that problems will occur.

5. Set realistic recovery objectives

Frequently, organizations have established objectives and prioritized servers and applications in accordance with Disaster Recovery policies. However, upon an objective examination of Disaster Recovery capabilities and resources, it turns out that these goals are not attainable. Thus it is important to set realistic Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).

Disaster recovery must take into account how a business is run and the different elements required to keep the business going. These needs vary from business to business, and a good disaster recovery plan should be designed for the individual business’s needs. Using a generic disaster recovery strategy is better than nothing, but it may stress elements that are less important to your business, or worse, leave out critical aspects.

The first step to crafting an individual disaster recovery plan is mapping out the most critical aspects of day to day business. If a great deal of time is spent communicating with clients over the phone, then a backup phone system needs to be addressed. Data disaster recovery often includes making frequent backups of all critical data and records, both digital and hard copies, and storing them in a secure, remote location. It is also important to keep in mind the time frame for disaster recovery. If your company needs to be able to recover almost instantly from a disaster, much more complex and redundant steps must be taken than if you have the ability to spend more time recovering. If your company works in a real time, online environment, you need multiple backup systems standing by so that, in the event of a disaster, they can instantly come online.

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