Disaster Recovery - protecting business critical continuity

July 2007

In the age where technology is utilised to gain business advantage and processes are streamlined for efficiency, for many businesses the most important asset it owns is the data it generates and stores on the system.  Be it client confidential, customer sales details, or payroll, regaining access to the data, hardware and software is essential in resuming critical business operations should a disaster strike.

Minimising disruption of service delivery will take careful consideration and assessment of the likely impacts on your business, but there are some good basic practices to ensuring your data is protected.  A back-up of data from your servers onto some sort of media is a good start, but don’t leave it in your server room or on the premises, if your building is destroyed or access denied then it is of no use.

Data should be categorised by importance and information systems adjusted, including server and data consolidation either by SAN or other archival storage, to make recovery easier.

Hosted disaster recovery provides continuous real-time replication of business critical data to hosted off-site servers that will radically reduce any impact to your business operations and service delivery. Remote workers can securely access off-site data via a simple internet connection, from home or alternative business premises.  Clients are unaffected and reassured, by your ability to maintain service and respond to their needs.

Plan and be prepared - with our wealth of technical expertise Synergy Systems can deploy rapid response systems monitoring, maintenance, DR planning, recovery and hosted services to minimise downtime and support your business.