Ashtech Infotech Pvt. Ltd. - Solutions

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As the organisations are catering to beyond the boundaries of India, it is imperative that the requisite IT infrastructure is available always – irrespective a disaster striking the main Data Center ot it being a planned downtime.

Why do customers typically need Disaster Recovery site :-

- Disaster Recovery/ Business Continuity
- Wide Area High Availability
- Planned Site Migration
- Data Warehousing
- Site Consolidation
- Follow-the-Sun Processing
- Content Distribution
- Backup Centralization
- Off-host Processing
- Geographic Load Balancing

The IT infrastruture not being available could mean :-

- Loss of Revenue/ Market Share
- Reputation being hit
- Loss of Employees
- Customers are dissatisfied
- Competition gets an edge over your company

What Ashtech contributes to the customer in the DR/ BC area are :-

- Assessment
- Plan
- Implement
- Test
- Manage

The key points that are required to be understood from customer to enable the appropriate planning & solution recommendation are :-

- Recovery Time expectation
- Recovery Point expectation

What are the typical benefits ?
Improvement in flexibility & productivity

- Non-disruptive data center upgrades/ migrations
- Non-disruptive test of new applications
- Improve performance by load balancing applications between data centers
- Move non-production data uses to remote site (ex. data warehousing)

The Approach

- Understanding the customer needs in event of disaster
  - Help identify the appropriate DR/ BC site
  - Plan the DR/ BC Strategy
    - Applications that need to be avbl.
    - Users who need to be able to access the DR/ BC site
  - Expected Time to recover
  - Expected Stage upto which recovery needs to be done
    - Does the data at remote end need to be Real Time
    - Could the data be Near Real Time
    - Can recovery strategy be based on Logs of Database
    - Can recovery be as per the last day backup of primary site
  - Document the Recovery Strategy
    - Assist in building the internal team
    - SCOPE definition
    - Assist in Manual preparation
      - Prepare the process document
      - Prepare the Responsibility matrix
      - Etc…
    - Document the Test Plan
  - Test the PLAN on a regular basis
  - Offisite Backup Storage + Recovery Strategy