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Disaster Recovery Strategies Development

Purpose of disaster recovery strategies

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Disaster Recovery strategies define the high-level design of the Information Technology recovery environment. These strategies must be capable of servicing the organization’s requirements and priorities in relation to critical technology resources and need to address the different Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) tiers. In order to develop these strategies, an organization needs to take into account the topology and technologies. 

 

The strategies can address long term and short-term needs. The DR strategy development will differentiate between Business & IT requirements that can and need to be addressed by Disaster Recovery strategies and requirements that need to be addressed by Operational Availability strategies and solutions.

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Who needs disaster recovery strategies

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Companies of all sizes that want to have a cost-effective, sustainable and repeatable disaster recovery solution. This service is very useful for companies that:

  • Do not have a DR solution

  • Need to develop/update their short- and long-term strategies

  • Have DR solutions but want to validate if the strategies are optimal, cost-effective and up to date

  • Go through one or more of the following: technology change/refresh, consolidation, Mergers and Acquisitions

  • Companies that have in-house (DIY), managed service or Cloud based DR solution

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Disaster recovery strategies vs. operational availability

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Disaster Recovery solutions address sudden, site-wide disasters, such as natural disaster, power outages, etc., which typically leads to loss of functionality of the whole production data centre. DR solutions provide a way to restore operational services after a major failure, outage or disaster occurs. Instead of preventing outages, DR solutions attempt to shorten the duration of the outage Disaster Recovery objectives are commonly specified as: recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO).

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​Operational availability solutions (aka high availability) address component (i.e. server, disk, etc.) outages / failure. These solutions typically prevent downtime by improving the systems’ ability to resist failures or add redundancy focus on ensuring that the services and data remain available and usable. High-availability objectives are commonly specified as a percent of uptime (for example 99.99% uptime)

How can we help your business

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Uptime Resiliency Consulting will help your organization develop optimal and cost-effective proven short- and long-term DR strategies. The DR strategies will cover data centers, servers, storage, vital records and many other critical areas.

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Some of the guiding principles for the developed DR strategies:

  • Cost effective

  • Reusability

  • Scalability

  • Proven

  • Being based on industry good practices 

  • Avoidance of over complication

  • Differentiation between Disaster Recovery and Operational Availability (HA)

Other resiliency services that may interest you 
IT Disaster Recovery Risk Assessment  

Asses & find IT disaster recovery deficiencies prior to activation

Disaster Recovery Program Development (Roadmap)  

Develop a holistic end-to-end IT disaster recovery program

IT Disaster / Technology Recovery Plan Development  

Develop a scalable IT disaster recovery plan that will meet your objectives

Disaster Recovery Exercise Foundations Development  

Develop holistic and reusable IT disaster recovery exercise foundations

DR Critical Infrastructure Solution Design

Support IT DR architecture, technology & infra solution design

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