IT Disaster Recovery Services

A Well-Designed IT Disaster Recovery Plan Ensures You Are Prepared for Anything

Having a well-crafted IT disaster recovery plan and business continuity plan (BCP) management strategy that is grounded in a robust data backup and recovery solution are essential. Loss of data could mean lost emails, accounting data, patient or client files, company records, or client records. It also means a potential loss of revenue. Organizations are under pressure from regulatory compliance, customer demands, or internal mandates to develop Business Continuity plans (BCP) and IT Disaster Recovery plans (DRP). Our strategic consultants can assist your organization in BCP and DRP activities to help you achieve your goals.

Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

A Business Impact Analysis (BIA) provides an understanding of the impacts a disaster event can have on your business.

With our BIA, we work with key business leaders and stakeholders to:
  • Identify the cost and revenue impacts- Loss of revenue
    – Loss of productivity
    – Increased operating costs
    – Financial penalties
  • Identify the intangible goodwill, compliance, and safety- Impact on customers
    – Impact on staff
    – Impact on business partners
    – Impact on health & safety
    – Impact on compliance
  • Estimate the total impact of downtime
  • Develop business downtime tolerance
  • Develop recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) tiers
  • Identify appropriate (right-sized) recovery time objectives for each service

Strategic IT Disaster Recovery Planning & Business Continuity Planning

Our Strategic Consultants can work with you to develop a comprehensive IT disaster recovery plan that:

  • Identifies current recovery procedures and Disaster Recovery Plan maturity
  • Identifies impacts on the business
  • Determines current recovery procedure
  • Documents current-state recovery workflow
  • Identifies gaps in required resources to achieve agreed RTO / RPO
  • Develops solutions and recommendations to reduce or mitigate gaps in service restoration
  • Creates a new recovery workflow that demonstrates recommendation impacts
  • Identifies teams, roles, and responsibilities
  • Develops and updates existing DRP document suite (e.g., recovery plan and workflows, policies, communications plan)

Along with an IT Disaster Recovery Plan, a Business Continuity Plan is the blueprint for how businesses plan to survive everything from local equipment failure to global disaster. A data-oriented BCP is an indispensable component of business planning that poses challenges for businesses of all sizes. Our plans focus on communications, people, security, and application and data availability.