When you think about your disaster recovery plan, does your tape backup system come to mind? Does the mere mention of disaster recovery make you a bit nervous? If so, you're not alone. Many businesses risk grave losses due to failures and disasters yet continue to depend on their tape backups to help them recover successfully should a major outage occur.

We understand that risk is changing and the pace of change is accelerating and it is important for a business to continue to ensure day to day practices stay ahead of the curve. Whether you’re a 5 user or a 120 user company, business continuity should be at the top of your IT agenda and planning. We also understand that the process of keeping an organisation’s key people and critical information connected, when, where and how it matters – comprises three broad areas of activity which when combined, deliver an optimum strategy for organisational continuity and availability in line with IT, time, budget and business needs. The balance between the three aspects of the information availability continuum depends on two key metrics: 

Recovery Time Objective (RTO): The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the duration of time and a service level within which a business process must be restored after a disaster (or disruption) in order to avoid unacceptable consequences associated with a break in business continuity. The business continuity timeline usually runs parallel with an incident management timeline and may start at the same, or different, points. 

Recovery Point Objective (RPO): The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is the point in time to which you must recover data as defined by your organization. This is generally a definition of what an organization determines is an "acceptable loss" in a disaster situation. If the RPO of a company is 2 hours and the time it takes to get the data back into production is 5 hours, the RPO is still 2 hours. Based on this RPO the data must be restored to within 2 hours of the disaster.

Our team has the relevant experience and knowledge to keep you and your business running and available at all times, from online DR backup to virtualisation, from bonded ADSL’s to backup WiMax links and from a single seat to a fully serviced office we can help you make that important decision on keeping your business running in an event of disaster.