Prepare Your Business for the Unthinkable

All organizations, even the smallest, need disaster recovery measures in place to preserve data assets and communication infrastructures.   Industry data reports as much as 40 percent of businesses do not reopen after a major disaster like a hurricane, tornado or flood.  These shuttered businesses were not prepared for a disaster; they did not have a plan or backup systems in place. [1] 

What is Disaster Recovery?
Disaster Recovery planning readies your organization with the technology, processes, policies and procedures needed to continue critical business operations.  Disaster Recovery, or DR, is a subset of business continuity planning (BCP). BCP is the strategy and practice of keeping your core business functioning after (and ideally during) a disastrous event, rather than simply being able to recover after a disaster. BCP is more organizational-focused, while DR is focused on IT, information assets and resources.

Disasters can happen anywhere, often with little or no warning.  They are not limited to regional natural disasters such as earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and fires, but disasters can include local events, such as severed communication lines, server component failures, air conditioning overload, and even toilet overflows. Each of these occurrences can wreak havoc on business and IT operations, causing loss of data and business productivity.
 
At NSPI, we understand the importance of planning for unexpected events that could compromise critical business functions.  The ability of an organization to ensure continuity of service and support for its customers is critical in today’s competitive marketplace.  NSPI helps customers develop strategies and action plans to protect or recover key business systems.  Preparedness is the key to ensuring uninterrupted delivery of products and services.

What does a Disaster Recovery solution look like?
Disaster recovery planning starts with an assessment of your current systems and infrastructure. It helps you understand what your most valuable and critical information assets are, and managing the risk surrounding those assets. A disaster recovery plan provides documentation of the processes and procedures that support a DR effort. The actual solution may include a simple data backup and recovery solution, or a fully-automated data replication solution with standby infrastructure and servers at a remote site.

Benefits Include:

• Provides business impact analysis of your systems and applications
• Prepares you with a plan to execute before, during and after a disaster
• Reduces lost revenue & productivity
• Accelerates time to business recovery
• Reduces amount of data loss
• Reduces emergency decision making
• Increases the probability of continuing business operations

NSPI can help with your DR solution
NSPI has been providing DR consulting and solutions for over a decade. Our consultants, architects, and engineers can help uncover the DR weaknesses and oversights in your infrastructure, processes, and procedures. NSPI also understands the intricacies of disaster recovery solutions and how those solutions can benefit your business. NSPI can help you reduce your business's Recovery Time Objectives (RTO - the amount of time it takes to recover) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO - the point in time to which your data can be restored/recovered). 

NSPI owns and operates data centers in North Metro Atlanta, and have collocation space in South Metro Atlanta. Our data center is SAS70 Type II accredited, provides N+1 power and cooling, with multiple Internet feeds, as well as dedicated site-to-site leased communication links. We can host your primary equipment, DR equipment, or both using our two data center sites. 

Available DR Services and Solutions

• DR Implementation / Deployment
• DR Support and Management
• Hosting (Primary site, DR site, or both)
• Utility based infrastructure & equipment
• DR Testing Assistance

Ask about the game-changing DR tool:
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1. Research Note: When Disaster Strikes: Have Preset Recovery Objectives on Hand
2. Research Note: Emergency Notification Systems: A Critical Aspect of DRP
3. Article: CIO Magazine: ABC: An Introduction to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning

References: [1] American Red Cross, [2] [3] McGladrey and Pullen, [4] National Archives and Administration