Disaster recovery planning encompasses a set of policies, processes and technologies that insure a business's continuity in case of disaster. When a disaster occurs, the disaster recovery plan's aim is to restore an acceptable level of operations within an acceptable time period.
The important parts of that definition are "acceptable level of operations" and "acceptable time period." The goal of disaster recovery is to save your business time and money. So spending large amounts to backup and recover every piece of data instantly isn't necessary if every piece isn't a business critical component. Setting the appropriate level of operations and time period to limit business damage can be a smart way to decrease the expense of backup and recovery by a considerable amount.
Whether it is backing up data or creating alternate means of communication (text messages, instant messages, email, phone, blogs or a wiki, to name a few), the fundamental concept behind disaster recovery planning is redundancy. Having redundant systems (and the processes that support them) can allow a business to return to functionality with the least amount of trouble.
The first step that Elate IT does when creating a disaster recovery plan is to do BIA(business impact analysis) for the client. This information will determine the systems, information, processes etc that need to be available for a business to be viable. Once that analysis has been completed, Elate IT moves ahead planning for other disaster recovery components.
The decision of time involved in recovery becomes a cost/benefit comparison between the proportion of the business that is backed up and the cost of creating that redundancy.In an ideal situation, a company would like to recover an exact replica of its business with a single click of a button. In reality, however, the cost of that would be prohibitive. Each business will be different, but the line between "must have" and "would like to have" components will inform a business what areas of their business a company should cover.
One of the biggest myths is that only large businesses with huge amounts of capital can adequately plan and prepare for a disaster. That might have been true fifteen years ago, but it's no longer the case. Because the cost of storage and bandwidth have decreased so much in the past decade and a half, backup and disaster recovery are options that all businesses should incorporate.
Some people think that disaster planning is too complex to be worthwhile if a business isn't in a disaster hot spot. The fact of the matter is that disasters can take many different forms and can happen anywhere. While planning ahead might require some effort now, that requirement is dwarfed by the effort required to recover after a disaster takes out 90% of a business's data. Not only can disaster recovery planning save you time after the fact, but the steps involved in creating a plan can often help streamline existing business processes. When you contact Elate IT we make sure that we take care of your disaster recovery planning and processes while you concentrate on your business objectives.
There are few areas of implementation when it comes to disaster recovery planning as, creation of Backup contingency site, Online or offline Data backups and documentary backups. Elate IT provides services in all these areas, so we don’t only do Disaster recovery planning but we also provide you resources to implement those processes. Elate IT has got its own multiple contingency sites across Karachi, with our own locker storage areas and State of art Data centre for data backups. Please refer to IT contingency services by Elate IT for more details.
