Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity -- Planning & Solutions for your Availability and Data Security Needs
Disaster recovery and business continuity have become hot topics for most organizations. This is because business disruption is a real risk that all companies face, whether from data corruption, human error, hardware failure, or natural disasters. The downtime and potential data loss caused by these disruptions become very costly from the standpoint of lost opportunity, wasted productivity, or compliance breaches. Without an adequate disaster recovery / business continuity solution in place, lost data and prolonged downtime could result in a loss of massive amounts of revenue and productivity, as well as customer trust and brand equity, which take years to build but just hours to destroy. |
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Strategic Data Management has a four-step approach to address your disaster recovery/ business continuity needs:
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Disaster Recovery Planning & Consulting: We interview and work with your IT department and business community to identify and evaluate your business processes, including your data flow, and document the requirements.
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Disaster Recovery Impact: We assess and document the risk and impact to your business in the event of a disruption to any or all of your business processes or loss of data.
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Customize Your Disaster Recovery Solution: We develop a layered solution by integrating the appropriate disaster recovery / business continuity tools into your operation. We develop and document your business continuity plan to include service level agreements, recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives and recovery granularity objectives to meet the requirements of each business process. We create and document the policies and procedures to follow in the event of a disruption, including the people responsible for each step of the disaster recovery plan.
Schedule and Test Your Disaster Recovery Plan: We develop a schedule and then help you exercise and test your business continuity plan to verify that you are meeting your service level agreements and recovery objectives and following all procedures.
Strategic Data Management offers a suite of disaster recovery / business continuity solutions from our industry partners. Click here to learn more.
You may also visit our document resource library to read white papers on business continuity or view case studies of how other organizations have successfully protected their businesses from disruption by leveraging these solutions.