Disaster recovery is a response to unexpected shutdowns that occur and carry with them the cost of the business that translates into lost time, lost customers and lost opportunity. An unexpected shutdown can be defined as events that:
(a) Affects Physical Facilities or environment
(b) Affects health, welfare or safety of personnel or public
(c) Affects Business Operation
These shutdowns can be classified as Malfunctions, disasters or catastrophe. Creating an effective plan to deal with the potential unexpected shutdown is known as Disaster Recovery Planning. Disaster recovery can be broken into the following components:
(a) Business Planning and Preparation
(b) Business Systems and Technology Preparation
(c) Incident Response Planning
Many organizations hesitate to implement large-scale disaster recovery initiatives because of the costs and the complexity involved, as DR Site do not contribute to the production but essentially are insurances in case of disruptions. CtrlS DR approach helps the businesses by breaking the operational components into three simple concepts:
(a) Identify the risks
(b) Proactive approach to the potential problem
(c) Creating a response to the potential problem
CtrlS DR on Demand is a new innovative concept for organizations who do not want to incur CAPEX for setting up a DR facility. DR on Demand from CtrlS helps organizations take advantage of our expertise in setting and managing DR at a fraction of a cost. What more, your organization can realize significant cost benefits with pay-as-you-use option which means pay only for the time you use our DR facility.
The CtrlS DR on Demand is a comprehensive offering for the BCP Practices of business. It has the following steps:
(a) Create the DR Architecture as per the business requirements
(b) Do the initial setup
(c) Setup the replication (RPO)
(d) Take ownership of DR marshalling (RTO)
(e) Restore primary site as and when it is available
The charges for DR on Demand are kept in a “pay as you go” concept which draws richly on the “Just in Time Inventory” for creating a unique value proposition to our clients, where there is a minimal charges on a monthly basis as during replication, compute elements are used least and there is a weekly activation charges whenever the DR in invoked. This allows the clients to run their replication with minimal resources with a guarantee to achieve the full capacity as and when required. The DR set also includes twice annual DR Drills
