Disaster Recovery Solutions
Many companies struggle with implementing Disaster Recovery capabilities that truly meet the needs of the business. Traditional hardware-focused contracts rarely provide the speed of recovery required to ensure the ongoing success of the business. While fully redundant computing architectures may be justifiable for some critical systems, they are not practical for the majority of information systems:
- Redundant, multi-site infrastructures exponentially increase the complexity of maintenance and systems continuity management, taxing IT resources and managerial staff.
- These redundant systems can be prohibitively expensive, siphoning financial resources that could be better employed for core business continuity activities.
- Mastering, developing, and maintaining the detailed processes and documentation required for an effective Disaster Recovery plan – and the regulations that may govern those requirements – is a daunting challenge for most business, and can distract staff from higher-value core business activities.
Consonus Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Solutions
Consonus provides our customers with the technologies, services, and expertise to meet their Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery requirements. Consonus IT Risk Assessment and IT risk management services provide innovative approaches for understanding and managing risks, for protecting enterprise data, and for provisioning IT disaster recovery systems in the event of a disaster.
Consonus Disaster Recovery Solutions and business continuity service capabilities are augmented by our broad technical knowledge of related technologies for data protection, replication and virtualization, and 20 years of experience in helping clients implement the relevant technologies. We also have developed a suite of managed services for data protection and disaster recovery/business continuity planning, which can often augment our clients' existing capabilities and help them meet their objectives.
Disaster Recovery Plan - Top 10
- Identified the quantitative and qualitative costs of downtime
- Established Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and the IT Infrastructure necessary to achieve them
- Selected and prepared a data center facility for IT disaster recovery
- Clearly defined Disaster Recovery Roles and Responsibilities
- A Disaster Recovery Communication Plan that details procedures for the activation of the Recovery Team
- Detailed Data Recovery Procedures
- Validation of technical and personnel readiness
- Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) with Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Testing and verification of technical recovery capabilities at least twice per year, and team preparedness exercises at least annually
- A comprehensive plan for providing end users access to systems, irrespective of how physical facilities or networks may be impacted by disaster
The Consonus Approach to Disaster Recovery
Consonus has developed our comprehensive portfolio of Disaster Recovery services and Business Continuity solutions to address these challenges that includes:
- Secure, highly available managed data centers spread across the United States that are ideal for housing both production and recovery systems.
- Enterprise-class remote backup and data replication services to protect your data in a rapidly recoverable form to meet your business requirements
- Innovative virtual computing and storage infrastructure provisioned on demand to meet disaster recovery and production scalability requirements.
- Comprehensive IT Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity consulting services, to ensure that capabilities and plans are properly aligned with the true business requirements, and that the plan will actually work in the event of a disaster.
- A methodology that supports implementing technology capabilities in your data center, in our hosted data centers, virtually in "the cloud", or across a combination of these — whatever is most appropriate for your needs.
- Low cost subscription to a Business Continuity workspace, provisioned very rapidly in the event that you cannot access your primary work location.
Consonus offers a full spectrum of IT Business Solutions, including Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity. Our consultants hold current Business Continuity Planning certifications from the Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII), and take into account the technology, business process, and human factors necessary for successful recovery in the event of a disaster. Our approach includes helping you objectively assess your requirements and current capabilities, map out the optimal path to meet your requirements, build the capabilities you require, and develop the documented plans to mitigate your business IT risk management. We've delivered these services for dozens of clients over the last ten years, across the country and in every major industry.
