07-02-13 | Blog Post
We’ve just launched our latest white paper, Disaster Recovery, a great resource covering business drivers for investing in a plan; a high-level overview of the specific stages of a business continuity plan; and an in-depth explanation of the latest technology available for efficient and accurate data recovery. As dependence on electronic data storage and application processes increases throughout diverse industries, an IT disaster recovery plan becomes more essential to business survival and a significant player in gaining the competitive edge.
Here’s a preview:
Disaster Recovery: Executive Summary
Investing in risk management means investing in business sustainability – designing a comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery plan is about analyzing the impact of a business interruption on revenue.
Mapping out your business model, identifying key components essential to operations, developing and testing a strategy to efficiently recover and restore data and systems is an involved, long-term project that may take 12-18 months depending on the complexity of your organization.
Addressing high-level business drivers for designing, implementing and testing a business continuity and disaster recovery plan, this white paper makes a case for the investment while discussing the innate challenges, benefits and detriments of different solutions from the perspective of experienced IT and data security professionals.
Speaking directly to different compliance requirements, this paper addresses how to protect sensitive backup data within the parameters of standards set for the healthcare and e-commerce industries.
From there, this paper delves into different disaster recovery and offsite backup technical solutions, from traditional to virtualization (cloud-based disaster recovery), as well as considerations in seeking a disaster recovery as a service solution (DRaaS) provider. A case study of the switch from physical servers and traditional disaster recovery to a private cloud environment details the differences in cost, uptime, performance and more.
This white paper is ideal for executives and IT decision-makers seeking a primer as well as up-to-date information regarding disaster recovery best practices and specific technology recommendations.
Call us at 877.740.5028, or email us at [email protected] with any additional IT disaster recovery/offsite backup questions or concerns.
To view the full white paper and download the PDF, please visit Disaster Recovery White Paper.
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