Data Recovery Services And Corporate Business Continuity Program

Feb 21
13:15

2013

Volodymyr Minkevych

Volodymyr Minkevych

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Most corporations understand the cost of downtime due to failure of mission critical applications. Nothing is more important to companies than busines...

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Most corporations understand the cost of downtime due to failure of mission critical applications. Nothing is more important to companies than business continuity. Every hour that crucial data is unavailable can cost a company thousands,Data Recovery Services And Corporate Business Continuity Program Articles if not millions of dollars. That is why they develop comprehensive plans to protect their business in the event of any major failure or disaster. However, even the most elaborate Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) plans can fail when the backup media they rely on becomes corrupted or damaged. Should this type of media recovery situation arise, corporate IT organizations should not be wasting precious downtime looking for a reliable vendor.

By incorporating this innovative program now, companies will have a vetted BC/DR partner in place should critical recovery issues ever take place. As part of the program, corporate IT organizations work directly with data recovery services’ Business Continuity planners tohelp them determine how their services best fit into existing BC/DR plans and how to execute on them. The overall goal is to improve business continuity processes and procedures and reduce costly downtime associated with backup media failures.

 It is essential to corporations that their data is handled securely and confidentially. Data recovery services should beenauthorized by government agencies and Fortune 500 companies to handle their most sensitive data. They offer highly secure protocols for maximum security and confidentiality.

More and more corporations, and even small businesses, move to the cloud and virtual environments with comprehensive replication and backup. But no RAID or cloud setup is immune to data loss, and even the best configured systems can still fail due to power surges or human error. Replication, for example, does not protect against accidental deletion of critical data because this operation will be replicated.  Unfortunately, backup infrastructure and planning is not failure-proof and can be affected by data loss in the same ways current storage systems can. Also, many backups are not done “on the fly”, meaning a part of the important data may not have been backed-up in the time window when the data loss happened. This piece of information may be critical for business itself, not to mention possible compliance and regulatory issues of sensitive data.

This program benefits a corporation’s entire organization. Thepriority service and corporate discounts are available to all office locations and employees. Data recovery services works with each company to structure a pricing model that best meet the needs for both their IT organizations and employees for all future recovery service requirements. In additional to their standard recovery services, this corporate program includes additional services such as data conversion, duplication, computer forensics, and secure media destruction.