Every business is susceptible to a disaster, but the longer a firm’s operations are shut down due to an unplanned disruption the more likely it will never reopen for business.
Today’s businesses rely heavily on their IT infrastructure in their day-to-day operations and therefore the risk of interruption is more likely to occur. Many companies cannot even afford short outage since this will impact their employees, customers, reputation and profits. Therefore, organizations are now striving for uninterrupted service.
In a world where business transactions are expected to occur in real time, and other factors requiring IT systems to be available 24 hours/365 days a year, the need for an ITDR is dramatically increasing.
IT Disaster Recovery (ITDR) is designed to ensure the continuation of major IT functions in the event of a disaster and to secure the resumption of business activities to their normal state of operations. ITDR consists of a series of activities that minimize the impact of unplanned outages on the critical business processes and ensure high-availability of data, systems, and even the entire data center. Unplanned outage can result from viruses, hacker attacks, computer malfunction, electric power failures, natural disaster, etc.
The focus of ITDR will be a practical one. Good disaster recovery planning is about identifying those business processes and their related IT/IS resources that are truly critical, developing realistic recovery objectives for them, and then developing a plan that can achieve those objectives as simply and cost-effectively as possible.
The objective is to make the planning process doable, even if this sacrifices some sophistication through automation. The reality is that a sophisticated DR plan that is too complex or expensive to properly maintain and test is worse than a plan that only does the minimum because it gives a false sense of security.
Nowadays companies greatly depend on their IT infrastructure in their daily activities, thus the probability of an unplanned outage to happen is becoming higher. Several organizations cannot afford even a single minute of IT infrastructure downtime as this will affect their staff, customers, suppliers, stakeholders, image and profits.
The need for ITDR is increasing with the increase of systems complexity. If organizations did not properly plan for unfortunate events, a system downtime can cost them thousands of dollars per minute. Knowing that the recovery from the loss of data is long, painful, and very costly, a sound disaster recovery plan is crucial to protect the well-being and survival of your organization.
Edarat Group team is comprised of professionally experienced consultants equipped with advanced technology, and has proven best practices in disaster management to help you implement ITDR in your organization
- Business Impact Analysis (RTO / RPO)
- IT Disaster Recovery Strategy (Hot Site, Recovery and Resilience…)
- ITDR Architecture Design and BOQ development
- Network and Systems Failover Architecture Design
- Primary Site infrastructure services upgrade
- Secondary site Infrastructure design
- High availability and data replication
- IT Contingency Planning
- Testing and Exercising
- SLA development
RELATED CASE STUDIES
DISASTER RECOVERY FOR ALINMA BANK
Alinma Bank, established during 2006 with a capital of SAR 15 billion, continues to strive to be one of the leading financial organizations in the Kingdom. One of the key factors to achieving this is to ensure continuous business operations in the event of a disaster. Symantec was engaged in the delivery of a Disaster Recovery project for Alinma Bank in Saudi Arabia
NETWORK AND DISASTER RECOVERY IMPLEMENTATION
CITC had one operational IT infrastructure located in Riyadh, King Fahed Road, which was servicing CITC users' IT needs from one hand and providing many services on the global and Kingdom level on the other hand. The viability of such services must be maintained and should be operational during crisis, war and normal circumstances. As such, CITC was required to guarantee permanent, reliable, and quality services by implementing the right level of protection.