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Business Continuity
& Disaster Recovery
Overview
HOW IT WORKS
Today’s modern IT operations are complex, and your organization may be highly dependent on those processes to ensure the business operates smoothly. IT operations typically include accounts payable/receivable, client billing, order processing, quote generation, and other numerous processes to provide essential services needed by the organization to operate.
These services may involve many interdependent systems, for example, databases, a web front end, or an application that crunches numbers. In addition to application interdependencies, there are infrastructure resources that power these applications, such as shared storage, computing, and networking. Today’s system administrator is charged to ensure uptime availability, performance, security, manageability, and the often-forgotten “recoverability” that can meet the organization’s business continuity requirements.
RECOVERABILITY
Recoverability is often grouped in two key categories. Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO). Together, these two metrics define your Business Continuity and Disaster Recover (BCDR) plans.
Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
RPO defines your company’s loss tolerance: the amount of data that can be lost before significant harm to the business occurs. An organization needs to define how much data it can afford to lose. This consists of a time measurement from the event that caused the loss, back to the most recent preceding functional backup. For some organizations, 24 hours of data loss (RPO) is not acceptable. This triggers the need for backups/data replication technologies capable of duplicating your data hourly or more frequent time intervals.
Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
Recovery Time Objective (RTO) refers to how much time an application can be down without causing material damage to the business -- the amount of time before you can resume business as usual. Some of your business applications can tolerate being unavailable for days without impact, other higher priority, mission critical applications can only tolerate a few seconds of unavailability. An organization should mandate what is acceptable downtime impact for employees and customers (to avoid lost business). Your role as the system administrator is to ensure you can deliver an acceptable RTO.
BCDR BENEFITS
Be More Competitive
The traditional needs of a solid BCDR solution include the ability to recover from physical failure or any type of disaster. Another critical element is your backups. With the correct architecture and security, they help empower you recover from the ever-increasing and alarming ransomware attacks. Your backups can be leveraged to re-establish your primary business if it has been locked out due to ransomware.
Nth Generation is well adept to help you define a functional RPO, RTO, and perform a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) to help architect and deliver a BCDR designed to meet your organization’s business continuity requirements.
WHY DO YOU NEED BCDR?
We are here to help.
Nth Generation offers teams of tenured experts that provide you
the expertise and certifications needed to assist with your application needs.
The SDDC is a reality today. You do not need to adopt all of it today, but you can strategically implement what you need, then scale up and scale out, as necessary.
Partner with Nth to determine:
Do you want to have a scalable BCDR Strategy?
How fast do you need to recover? (RTO)
What is your topology -- local, across town, out of state, global?
How can you leverage cloud backups?
How fast and often are your backups required? (RPO)
Do you have one, two, or more datacenters?
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