Disasters can strike your IT infrastructure anytime due to natural reasons or manmade and when they do, it is usually without notice. If you do not have the right IT disaster recovery solution, you can imagine the potential impact on your capability to serve your customers and run your business.
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Organizations need to realize the importance of disaster recovery as it can be costly and having far-reaching impacts on business. Heightened exposure to disruptive and catastrophic events in recent years coupled with increasing government and commercial interdependencies make disaster recovery and crisis management a critical business imperative.
A disaster recovery service provider should offer:
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Strategic Consulting
They should understand the business processes and identify your mission-critical functions. Identify threats and the associated business impact in tune with your business needs.
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Deployment and Implementation
With the necessary tools, technology and the personnel who can engineer the solution, deployment service provider can work on alternate strategies and narrow down on the one that works best.
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Monitoring and Management
Offers the requisite support and services necessary to monitor the plan with regular reviews and updates and periodic switch back/switch over drills keeping an eye on the Disaster Recovery solution.
Including disaster recovery is no longer an optional add-on, it has become a necessary element of IT systems and is a key step toward making sure your business can recover data and continue operations in the event of a disaster.
No matter what the size of your business, including disaster recovery services within your system is no longer an optional add-on. It is an indispensable element of your IT systems because we simply don't know what kind of danger is lurking around the corner.
