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	Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity

Business continuity and disaster recovery are critical requirements for effective IT governance. Once viewed as an IT insurance policy, disaster recovery is receiving significant attention not only in support of compliance but as a real competitive advantage.

Disaster Recovery (DR) consists of coping with and recovering from an IT crisis that moves work to an alternative system in a non-routine way. A top-down approach to successful DR planning begins with a Business Impact Analysis (BIA). A business impact analysis enumerates and prioritizes business-critical services, establishing Recovery Time (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) against which the DR plan can be created and measured.Beyond just a “backup and recovery” plan, a thorough IT Disaster Recovery Plan covers the data, hardware, software, personnel, facilities and recovery procedures necessary for a business to restore critical IT services in the event of natural or man-made disaster.An organization can ensure Business Continuity (BC) by addressing their IT DR plan and the resources and processes necessary to recover and continue their business operations.

DR/BC Strategy
As professional business continuity and disaster recovery planners, CTI can guide the development of recovery strategies by:

Providing a clear definition of recovery objectives based on business requirements
Understanding and performing a gap analysis of the IT architecture supporting critical business services
Understanding and analyzing the potential risks that can impact IT services and applications
Understanding available alternatives, their advantages, disadvantages, and costs
Identifying viable recovery strategies within functional areas
Consolidating recovery strategies Identifying off-site storage requirements and alternative facilities
Presenting strategies to management for their comments

Did You Know?

Two out of five companies that experience a catastrophic event or prolonged outage never resume operations. Of those that do, one out of three goes out of business two years later.

-Gartner Group

Our consultants hold Business Continuity Planning certifications from Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII).

DR/BC

Business Impact Analysis (BIA) / RTO & RPO Target facilitation
DR Strategy / Architecture Assessment / Facilitation

Featured Case Studies

Learn how we assisted a Global Financial Services company in implementing a solution to better protect and recover their mission-critical data.
Read how we performed a BIA for a global distribution company and helped them develop a reliable Disaster Recovery plan.

DR/BC Service Offerings

Business Impact Analysis (BIA) / Risk Assessment
- Identifies critical business processes and IT services
- Determines Business Case & requirements for Continuity
- Assesses Risk, determines applicable disaster scenarios
DR/BC Strategy Development
- Identifies appropriate, cost effective approaches to ensuring continuity for critical services and processes
IT Disaster Recovery Gap Assessment
- Determines ability of current IT capabilities to meet requirements as currently understood
- Organizational / Operational Readiness
DR Capabilities Implementation
- Implement appropriate combination of technologies and third party services to enable the strategy
DR Plan Development
- Establish DR policies
- Document procedures for Emergency Response and Disaster Recovery
DR Test Planning & Facilitation
- Oversight for realistic, actionable exercises of the DR plan
- Gather lessons learned and improve the plan where needed
Business Continuity Program Development
- Establish ongoing, holistic Business Continuity Program
- Implement Professional Practices
- Establish tools / processes for publication & maintenance of plans