IT Services: How to Protect IT Infrastructure with Disaster Recovery

IT Services:
How to Protect IT Infrastructure with
Disaster Recovery

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IT Services:
How to Protect IT Infrastructure with Disaster Recovery

When it comes to outsourcing IT services, business continuity management is critical to
the very survival of your business.

As the umbrella category, Business Continuity Management (BCM) is a process of
coordinating, facilitating and executing activities that ensure effectiveness in:

 Identifying and mitigating operational risks before they occur.

 Responding to disruptive events (natural and man-made, and accidental
and intentional).

 Recovering mission-critical business operations after disruptive events.

 Conducting a postmortem of an event to improve future recovery
operations.


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According to the Gartner Group, BCM is composed of six components:

 Crisis/Incident Management
 Emergency Response
 IT Disaster Recovery
 Business Recovery
 Contingency Planning
 Pandemic Planning

⁻ Often disaster recovery services are used inter-changeably with business continuity
management.

⁻ For the purposes of this presentation, we’ll focus on disaster recovery since that
solution is the most commonly marketed among IT services providers.


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Types of Disaster Events
⁻ The types of disaster events are varied, including:
• hardware errors • power outages • cyber threats
• equipment failures • fire

⁻ While hardware errors and failure events can be eliminated by backup equipment;
power, fire and network events can be eliminated by using a second data center and
backup equipment.

⁻ Enlisting an IT services provider can reduce disaster recovery and subsequently business
risks.

⁻ According to multiple studies by the Contingency Planning Research & Strategic
Research Corporation, Pepperdine University, and the Kroll OnTrack Data Recovery
Services, the primary causes for data loss were caused by equipment and personnel
issues.


IT Services:

Types of Disaster Events
⁻ The types of disaster events are varied, including:
• hardware errors • power outages • cyber threats
• equipment failures • fire

⁻ An IT services environment not using the best and most advanced technologies has a
greater risk of malfunctioning and causing serious data loss. In addition, inexperienced
or untrained IT services staff can make mistakes that lead to data loss.
Both of these risks, as well as the other causes of data loss, can be greatly
reduced and even eliminated, in an outsourcing environment.

⁻ To ensure a disaster will not take down a company, outsourced IT services are often
used.
⁻ It is very unlikely a company can achieve a high level of probability on its own without
the partnership of an expert outsourcer.

⁻ Outsourcing an IT environment is typically the quickest and the most cost effective way
to accommodate the disaster recovery needs of mission critical applications.


IT Services:

OneNeck’s Disaster Recovery Solutions

OneNeck’s disaster recovery IT services assures our customers’ data, networks and
systems are protected and quickly recoverable upon the declaration of a disaster.

The services can include redundant hardware, advanced networking architectures,
customized backup and recovery solutions, data center options, and a skilled staff to
execute the plan.

Simulations and testing are used to verify readiness and fine-tune disaster recovery
documentation.

OneNeck can deliver solutions that range from helping your company develop a
plan to providing a replicated hot site.


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OneNeck’s IT services are broad and far-reaching.

We’re perfectly positioned to address the diverse and complex needs of any
company.

We service thousands of customer locations, both in the U.S. and around the world
out of our North American and UK data centers.

OneNeck’s data centers are deliberately located in the most desirable locations to
minimize the risks of natural disasters.

Every effort is taken to eliminate all interruptions to power and telecommunication
systems.


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Many options exist to address disaster recovery in an outsourced environment.

To provide the best disaster recovery solution that supports the customer’s business
requirements, OneNeck can provide a disaster recovery assessment.

During this assessment, we categorize the current portfolio of applications and build
a tiered disaster recovery strategy with specific RTO and RPO needs.

Then we help the customer execute the disaster recovery strategy customized to
specific business needs.


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A proven IT services outsourcing provider like OneNeck, maintains the latest
technologies and processes to keep applications running.

In the rare event of a system or hardware malfunction, we can restore services
quickly through backup capabilities.

Human error is drastically curtailed in our environments because application
management functions are performed regularly.

In addition, our staff has the breadth and depth of expertise to keep everything
running smoothly.


About the Author

Chuck Vermillion is CEO and founder of
OneNeck IT Services, a leading provider of
hosted application management and
managed services since 1997.

For more information about
IT Services, visit
http://www.oneneck.com today.


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