Disaster recovery is an organization's way of resuming normal operations following a disaster like cyberattacks or any other business disruptions; This set of instructions allows the business to regain access to data, hardware, software, networking equipment, power and connectivity. It includes the steps about identifying critical IT assemblies and outlining the steps needed to restart, reconfigure and recover systems and networks.
Secure Curve has it all planned for you! We make your data recovery quick and painless. Because we understand how important it is for you to maintain an off-premises failover device, which will monitor system health and reroute traffic in real-time to a backup data centre in the event of failure.
A DRP contains both responsive and preventative elements and is a key part of a company’s Business Continuity Planning (BCP). On the responsive side, a DRP delineates numerous disaster scenarios, and defines the detailed responses to each, intending to minimise that event’s negative impact. On the preventative side, a DRP aims to minimize the negative effects of specific scenarios by defining what the organization needs to do to avoid them.
Re-acquiring customers and building trust with them post a disaster is very difficult; therefore it's far easier and better to invest in a DR (disaster recovery) plan.
Businesses increasingly depend on IT infrastructure; any interruption in the infrastructure availability leads to direct or indirect revenue loss.
Exhibiting a well-defined DR plan helps build confidence within the partner network.
IT infrastructure has shown great improvement in terms of resiliency, but weak links persist; thereby having a DR plan helps when those unforeseen issues happen.
A natural calamity will inevitably cause damage, but you can control the extent of damage caused. For example, in hurricane-prone areas, businesses plan to move all sensitive equipment off the floor and into a room with no windows.
It is the maximum tolerable length of time and a service level within which a business process must be restored after a disaster to avoid unacceptable consequences associated with a break in continuity.
It is concerned with the amount of data (expressed as time) that could be lost following a failure event.
Disaster recovery and business continuity are close cousins but not interchangeable terms. Business continuity is the process of getting the entire organisation back to full functionality after a crisis, whereas disaster recovery is about getting all-important IT infrastructure and operations up and running again. It pays to think of Disaster Recovery as a subset of Business Continuity.
It involves third-party cloud-based replication and hosting to provide full environmental recovery in the event of a disaster, with SLAs defining the DRaaS provider's role and recovery timings. This model leverages DRaaS for the expertise the provider brings, the scale and usage-based payment.
Storage management for company data is central to a disaster recovery plan. The data backup is copied to one or more locations, at pre-determined frequencies, and in different capacities. You can set up a flexible data backup operation, using your architecture, or make use of available Backup as a Service (BaaS) solutions, mixing them up with local storage.
Learn and analyse the history of your business, the industry and then map out the threats you are most likely to experience. These should include natural disasters, geopolitical events like wars or civil unrest, failure to critical equipment like servers, Internet connections or software, and cyber attacks.
Make sure that the DR plan is effective against all or at least the most likely threats. If required, create separate DR plans or sections within your DR plans for specific types of disasters.
It's important to comprehend and compile a list of all the assets important for day-to-day operations. This comprises network equipment, servers, workstations, software, cloud services, mobile devices, and more. They, then, are classified as:
A cornerstone of almost every IT disaster recovery plan is having a way to replicate data. While many businesses schedule periodic data backups, for disaster recovery purposes, the preferred approach is to continuously replicate data to another system. Data may be replicated to on-site cold storage, off-site cold storage, on-site warm backup and off-site warm backup.
Local storage is less resilient to disaster but gives you a shorter RTO (Recovery Time Objective). It also allows you to replicate or backup data more frequently, thereby improving your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) – meaning you can restore your data from almost every point in time.
Just like network systems fail during a disaster, so can your backups. A configuration problem, software error or equipment failure can render your backups useless, and you may never know it unless you test them.
An inseparable part of any disaster recovery plan is to test that data is being replicated correctly to the target location. It’s just as important to test that it’s possible to restore data back to your production site, at any point time. These tests must be conducted once when you set up your disaster recovery apparatus and repeated periodically to ensure the setup is still working.
Secure Curve's simple, comprehensive disaster recovery-readiness dashboard shows you where things are going well and where you may need more work. This makes it easy to address issues affecting recoverability quickly.
This service includes storing your data on a local storage device, such as hard disks, CDs, magnetic tapes and hard drives. We offer onsite cold storage (the backup device is within your data centre) and onsite warm backup (a redundant operational unit in your data centre, like a secondary server) options.
Similar to onsite backup service, we offer offsite cold storage (backup device in a remote data centre, or cloud storage with high latency, involving a delay or extra cost to retrieve data) and offsite warm backup (redundant operational unit in a remote data centre, or cloud storage with low latency, enabling immediate data access) services.
We also provide insights on your backups including allocating and forecasting cloud storage consumed; auditing of backups and restores; identifying key trends at different levels of granularity; and gaining visibility and insights into cost optimization opportunities for your backups.
Encryption keys are commonly created in the storage system. You can back up encryption keys to a file or to a key management server. Secure Curve engages you with a key management server where the keys are automatically backed up. When you configure the key management server in the Edit Encryption Environmental Settings window, you can also schedule regular backups.
At Secure Curve, you get 24X7 support to keep your business running at any point of the day. With a proficient team, we base our software solutions according to the challenges specific to your business niche:
We help protect your organization from potential security breaches and keep you patching vulnerabilities as and when required by your systems or OS.
Our services easily adapt to your requirements and are always up for customization at any stage.
Secure Curve takes pride in delivering round the clock assistance to cater for your needs because we understand that time is of the essence when it comes to software support.
The software maintenance and support services we provide prevent burning a hole in your pocket. Our services facilitate value for money, as compared to if you had rather invested in an in-house team of professionals.
Your data is 100% safe in our possession because we take immense care to prevent missteps in data handling
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