Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan

A Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) plan cannot be an afterthought. Giving yourself peace of mind that your business's most important data is safe from network or hard drive failure, fire or water damage, or even theft would provide a much smoother experience during an otherwise chaotic time of crisis.

Whether you need a complete failover replication of your business' IT environment or just specific data, a Disaster Recovery service would save you downtime and keep your business on track in cases of power failures and other natural disasters. Service-affecting scenarios have potential to be costly for both your business and the face of your brand but a good BC/DR service could be the difference maker. Although the two services are related and offer similar benefits there is a subtle differences between the two.

Business Continuity:

• Ensures that you can continue making money after smaller scale interruptions such as illness, loss of key staff, partner problems, or other similar challenges.

Disaster Recovery:

• Involves the processes of resuming business after a troublesome event, such as a destructive earthquake or tropical storm.

Benefits:

• Increases availability for business continuity.
• Increased retrieval time for sites, systems, databases, and files with disaster recovery.
• Significantly reduce primary storage capacity (often up to 50%).
• Maximize ROI through capitalizing on existing IT infrastructure.

The key to a successful Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plan is already having a plan in action, which ensures easy accessibility to, and availability of operations and data before any disasters strike. With a more recent shift to backup and disaster recovery options within the Cloud services it’s never been easier to protect your business no matter what events may come your way.

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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Strategy and Vision

A common theme shared by all of our clients is a challenge and concern to keep their business and IT environment running should there be an event that could impact their services. The possibility of power outages, network failure, or server failure is all problems that face our customers. Many of our clients have built some level of DR/BC with Redundant Internet, or Backup in the cloud, but it is rarely used and often falls out of favor, as these services are not always utilized. The use of newer Cloud services such as Virtualization and Mobility along with redundant network connectivity clients are able to act proactively in protecting themselves from an outage.

How Fastblue defines Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery:

• Disaster Recovery: Tools, and services put into effect to ensure key business components that become unavailable can be restored in as little time as possible and done in a manner that prevents data/information losses while restoring services in as little downtime as possible.


• Business Continuity: Creating, and executing a plan that involves all aspects of the company, ensuring that the organization continues to run at almost full capacity with almost no interruption. The goal of BC is to form a sustainable plan for the systems, infrastructure, and people that form your company.

The prevalence of the cloud has increased our customer's agility in forming DR/BC strategies. Through reduced Internet bandwidth costs, and reduced cloud backup/storage, recovery, virtualization costs our customers from the SMB to the Enterprise all have access to cutting edge technology. The emergence of services such as cloud backup, and cloud storage have increased the continuity of our clients with off-site data that is automatically replicated in the cloud.

Fastblue forms a customized BC/DR solution with our clients, working closely with strategic partners to help create our solution. We believe in an evolving solution set that enables organizations to reach near zero RFO and RTO for their business services. In representing partners such as Savvis/CenturyLink, RapidScale, Navisite and more we are able to leverage cutting edge technologies to build our clients a DR/BC solution built around them. This is achieved through services such as Desktop as a service, preventing downtime in the event of hardware failure. As more services are off-loaded to the cloud we will need to ensure connectivity to the cloud.

Regardless of your current business space, we have the advice and partnerships needed to form a powerful BC/DR plan.

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About Eric Swanstrom

Eric Swanstrom is a Sales and Account Manager at Fastblue Communications. Fastblue is a Premier Managed Cloud, Telecom, and Internet Security Provider.