From a customer perspective Disaster recovery and business continuance are a form of Insurance.

Disaster recovery is the process by which you resume business after a disruptive event. The event might be something huge-like an earthquake or the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center-or something small, like malfunctioning software caused by a computer virus. A Disaster Recovery Plan insures a company can recover from such a disaster. However, it does not put a time-line on how fast business operations will resume. That’s where Business Continuity takes over.

Given the human tendency to look on the bright side, many business executives are prone to ignoring “disaster recovery” because disaster seems an unlikely event. “Business continuity planning” suggests a more comprehensive approach to making sure you can keep making money. Often, the two terms are married under the acronym BC/DR. At any rate, DR and/or BC will determine how a company will keep functioning after a disruptive event until its normal facilities are restored.

The first step in a sensible business continuity planning process is to consider the potential impacts of each type of disaster or event. This is critical – how can you properly plan for a disaster if you have little idea of the likely impacts on your business/organization of the different scenarios?

Data-Tech Services can partner with you to:

Cost-effectively recover across distributed multi-vendor environments. Whether your platforms are all-hosted or mixed-vendor – we have services to suit your needs.

Ensure nearly continuous availability. Our disaster-tolerant technologies and services help you to avoid data loss and practically eliminate downtime.

Maintain continuity amid IT and business change. Obtain ongoing protection with program management, business continuity audit, change management, and training services from Data-Tech.

Comply with the latest regulations mandating business continuity. Let us show you how to satisfy the requirements of Basel II and HIPAA, the Turnbull Report recommendations, and more.

Safeguard enterprise application suites and strategic business processes. Protect applications such as SAP, MAS90, QuickBooks, BAAN, PeopleSoft, Oracle Financials, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Exchange and Siebel, as well as processes in critical areas like your call center, order entry department.

Business Continuity with a difference, Data-Tech

Protect your mission-critical operations against diverse downtime threats, and ease your recovery if an unforeseeable catastrophe strikes. We can help!