Disaster Recovery Assessment
Recent events have created an increased awareness of physical risks to IT facilities, services, and assets. In combination with growing regulatory pressures such as Sarbanes-Oxley (otherwise known as SOX), this is increasing management exposure and the need for Business Continuity Consulting.
Further, business cycles of growth, consolidation, merger/acquisition, divestiture, and staff reduction have increased the likelihood that your existing Disaster Recovery Plans are ineffective or outdated.
Increasing IT complexity and high-pressure business economics drive organizations to find more cost-effective approaches to enabling higher levels of IT Assessment and business resilience. Through our Disaster Recovery assessments, Consonus will help you build an effective Disaster Recovery Plan that addresses the data recovery, hardware, software, IT personnel, IT facilities and IT recovery procedures that enable you to restore critical IT services in the event of natural or human-created disaster. We enable repeatable, predictable process for:
- Defining Scope & Objectives
- Capturing Requirements
- Documenting Current Capabilities (Operational Baseline)
- Analyzing Gaps
- Recommending Future State
Collaboratively with you, Consonus identifies gaps and IT Risk where your current capabilities may fail to meet the business expectations and requirements, yielding a scorecard of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery capabilities and recommendations for actions to reduce your business exposure:
Disaster Recovery Assessment
| Objectives | Approach | Benefit |
| Continuous Data Protection | Gather and Report on Real Customer Data | Optimize Current Tech Investment |
| Reduce ITCosts | Review Current Asset Utilization | Root out Inefficiencies |
| Solve Current Pain Points | Tools to Quantify Current State | Justification for Remediation |
| Plan for Future Growth & New Requirements | Map findings to customer goal | Identify Enabling Technologies |
More Consonus Backup Disaster Recovery Services
- Disaster Recovery Strategy Development and Roadmap:
Consonus identifies appropriate, cost effective approaches to ensuring continuity for critical services and processes, and details the recommended steps and timeline to move from the current state to justifiable availability and recovery capabilities. - Disaster Recovery Capabilities Implementation:
Consonus assists you in implementing the appropriate combination of technologies and third party services to enable your Disaster Recovery strategy. - Detailed Disaster Recovery Plan Development:
Includes command and control elements for managing the event, as well as regularly tested detailed recovery procedures. - Consonus' expertise extends beyond IT:
We have assisted clients in developing a holistic Business Continuity Program. - Disaster Recovery Test Planning and Facilitation:
Consonus guides your development of realistic, actionable exercises that test and can prove the efficacy of your Disaster Recovery plan. Our facilitation of these exercises results in the identification of opportunities to improve or refine your Disaster Recovery plan. - Business Continuity Consulting:
Consonus helps you establish ongoing, holistic Business Continuity solutions featuring the implementation of professional practices and the tools and processes to develop and maintain your Disaster Recovery plans.
