Disaster Recovery

The main key to any Disaster Recovery success is having a realistic and well understood set of objectives that are based on the business needs. L&P Global Connexions assists clients with these objectives and helps clients to implement them. This involves planning and preparation, from the business impact analysis, to understanding and quantifying risks, to classifying and prioritising applications and data for recoverability.

Additionally, there is the need for preparing systems to be able to recover, and then documenting everything, especially the Disaster Recovery plan. Another factor for success is to make Disaster Recovery less than an exception by integrating Disaster Recovery hardware components into production. The dynamic nature of IT requires continuous review and updates of the process and the plan. It must be part of the day-to-day operations.

Finally, investing in a solid technology basis is critical. An organisation must leverage newer technologies that provide higher performance at lower cost where possible, and at a minimum it must ensure that data backups are functioning well.

L&P Global Connexions believe that the following is required for a good disaster recovery programme:

• Business and IT must be linked;
• There must be a Disaster Recovery plan;
• Keep the Disaster Recovery plan current;
• Test the Disaster Recovery plan;
• Set realistic recovery objectives;
• Establish Disaster Recovery responsibilities;
• Good backups;
• Alternative Recovery services;
• Disaster Recovery cost consideration.