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
  

• 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)

• 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