Disaster Recovery
Hurricane Katrina is about the worst event that has happened in the past few years. I heard horror stories about how businesses were destroyed because they could not recover. It has been stated that about 80% of businesses fail after a major disaster.
Just think for a minute if you could not get to your place of business for a 1 week or more. Would your business exist? What about your IT systems, does your business rely on these systems to function?
Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.
The first step any business should take is to develop a disaster recovery plan. Les Spindler from Contingency Planning Solutions has a very cost effective disaster recovery planning service. His service is very affordable and is easy to implement.
The second step is backups. What are you doing for your backups? Are you taking them off site? When is the last time you tested them? We offer a service that takes the guess work out of backups. We place an appliance on site and that appliance can take 15 minute snapshots of your server. If the server happens to crash, you can bring up that server in about 15 minutes. It also replicates data off site and if a disaster would happen to destroy your building, you can have the appliance with shipped to your location of choice in 24-48 hours.
With Virtualization and VMware you can also create your own off site replicated backup. We have a client who is doing just that. They have an office in Naples, Florida. If a hurricane would threaten that office, they replicate the data to their data center and run the servers in the data center. Once the hurricane passes, they replicate the data back.
What about your equipment? What if you equipment is destroyed? How are you going to replace your equipment? What about insurance, does your insurance policy cover your computing infrastructure? When is the last time you reviewed your insurance to make sure you are covered?
The third step is location. Where are you going to operate? How are people going to gain access to your systems? Having your data center off site is very affordable these days and puts you in a very good position to survive a disaster. Renting rack space is very affordable these days and most data center providers have build in the redundancy that most companies cannot afford. All you need then is a good remote computing environment, which can be easily achieved with Citrix or a nice SSL VPN product.
We at JSO have all of our systems in a collocation facility. We have designed our network so we can work from anywhere. This will help solve the people problem.
These are just a few tips on how to be prepared for a disaster. This is just a start on a very large and sometimes complex topic.
If you would like to find out more about disaster recovery and how to recovery from a disaster, contact me at james@jsotechnology.com or call 414-455-0719.
Just think for a minute if you could not get to your place of business for a 1 week or more. Would your business exist? What about your IT systems, does your business rely on these systems to function?
Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.
The first step any business should take is to develop a disaster recovery plan. Les Spindler from Contingency Planning Solutions has a very cost effective disaster recovery planning service. His service is very affordable and is easy to implement.
The second step is backups. What are you doing for your backups? Are you taking them off site? When is the last time you tested them? We offer a service that takes the guess work out of backups. We place an appliance on site and that appliance can take 15 minute snapshots of your server. If the server happens to crash, you can bring up that server in about 15 minutes. It also replicates data off site and if a disaster would happen to destroy your building, you can have the appliance with shipped to your location of choice in 24-48 hours.
With Virtualization and VMware you can also create your own off site replicated backup. We have a client who is doing just that. They have an office in Naples, Florida. If a hurricane would threaten that office, they replicate the data to their data center and run the servers in the data center. Once the hurricane passes, they replicate the data back.
What about your equipment? What if you equipment is destroyed? How are you going to replace your equipment? What about insurance, does your insurance policy cover your computing infrastructure? When is the last time you reviewed your insurance to make sure you are covered?
The third step is location. Where are you going to operate? How are people going to gain access to your systems? Having your data center off site is very affordable these days and puts you in a very good position to survive a disaster. Renting rack space is very affordable these days and most data center providers have build in the redundancy that most companies cannot afford. All you need then is a good remote computing environment, which can be easily achieved with Citrix or a nice SSL VPN product.
We at JSO have all of our systems in a collocation facility. We have designed our network so we can work from anywhere. This will help solve the people problem.
These are just a few tips on how to be prepared for a disaster. This is just a start on a very large and sometimes complex topic.
If you would like to find out more about disaster recovery and how to recovery from a disaster, contact me at james@jsotechnology.com or call 414-455-0719.
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