Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery

Artemis' expertise is truly unique when it comes to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. Artemis offer you a disaster recovery method that has repeatedly achieved successful results.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Disaster recovery involves more than just continuous data protection. Artemis understands that just having a copy of one's data in a remote site does little more than satisfy an audit point. The primary objective for deploying applications and services through technology is to provide reliability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, and a repeatable user experience. Technology continues to give many organizations a competitive edge in today's global markets. With such a reliance on technology one needs to look deeper into the protection of these systems. It is necessary to maintain resilience regardless of any internal or external threat that may jeopardize the survivability of these systems. It is our approach to Business Continuity that makes Artemis unique. Our solutions not only provide data and infrastructure resilience but true application awareness and protection that can be dispersed across geographical boundaries.

The Disaster Recovery Plan

Definition

 Your disaster recovery plan is a set of procedures developed to avoid or reduce the risk of a disaster, minimize the effects of a disaster, and quickly reestablish business critical processes to the point preceding a disaster. Unfortunately, for many companies, a disaster recovery plan consists of a backup schedule or the replication of data from one site to the next. They focus on backing up data based on a single dimension time frame that has no correlation to their organization's business events. This approach does nothing to ensure that applications are available in the event of a disruption. Nor do they guarantee data consistency across geographical boundaries or recover information based on a significant transaction or meaningful activity. In order to ensure disaster recovery, a vital first step is to prioritize and assess the impact of possible events such as software or hardware failure, power disruptions, computer shutdowns due to worms or viruses, loss of key personnel, and natural or manmade disasters.

Business Impact

Definition

Analysis will document the impact of any of the above events on every major business operation (e.g. customer support, sales, service, HR, etc.), and critical applications and systems. As with any important plan, senior management buy-in is essential. However, it is equally important to involve managers for key lines of business to ensure that the plan is comprehensive and adequate in the event of disaster.

To perform this analysis you must first determine which business processes and or systems must be available and when.

For some companies, the "killer app" may be email in order for employees and or customers to communicate.  For them, a business impact analysis will show that Exchange failover is extremely important. Further, they will want to ensure that they can failover to an alternate Exchange server at the push of a button and provide true service protection without losing valuable emails.

For a web-based company, the critical business application might be e-commerce applications. In fact, it might be the user-facing applications such as CRM or ERP. Therefore, not only do the frontend web servers require protection but the backend database servers need the same protection.

For financial services companies, the ability to carry out transactional operations might be the most important. Often a company will determine a small set of vital applications in decreasing levels of need and specify this set of applications in their Business Impact Analysis.

Artemis' Approach

• Focus on business continuity, not data recovery.
• Include the mission-critical applications and all supporting systems in the Business Impact Analysis—not just the data.
• Design technical solutions that require minimal effort to move applications, data, and systems from one location to the next.
• Design solutions that maximize the investment.
   

The Question To Ask...

If your application or businesses process were to go down, could you seamlessly recover?  If so, how and when?

Let Artemis Technology show you how to build a reliable, cost effective, and scalable environment that will support true Business Continuity.