IT Services: How to Protect IT Infrastructure with Disaster Recovery

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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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IT Services
How to Protect IT Infrastructure with Disaster
Recovery
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, well
  focus on disaster recovery since that solution is
  the most commonly marketed among IT services
  providers.

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How to Protect IT Infrastructure with Disaster
Recovery
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.

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How to Protect IT Infrastructure with Disaster
Recovery
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.

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IT Services
How to Protect IT Infrastructure with Disaster
Recovery
OneNecks Disaster Recovery Solutions
OneNecks 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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OneNecks Disaster Recovery Solutions
OneNecks IT services are broad and far-reaching.
Were 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.
OneNecks 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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How to Protect IT Infrastructure with Disaster
Recovery
OneNecks Disaster Recovery Solutions
Many options exist to address disaster recovery
in an outsourced environment.
To provide the best disaster recovery solution
that supports the customers 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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How to Protect IT Infrastructure with Disaster
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OneNecks Disaster Recovery Solutions
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.
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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.