Business continuity
Disaster recovery is an essential part of an overall business continuity plan and involves the restoration of operations critical to the resumption of business after a natural or human-induced disaster.
Objectives and considerations of ICT continuity plans include:
- Reducing the impact of a disaster or major failure
- Reducing your organisation’s vulnerability by analysing and mitigating risks
The aim of OPC’s ITIL-based ICT Business Continuity Services is to ensure your organisation’s required IT technical and services facilities can be recovered up to an agreed point (Recovery Point Objective or RPO) within agreed business timeframes (Recovery Time Objective or RTO).
OPC can assist with the design, implementation and management of an ICT business continuity plan for your organisation by incorporating various methodologies such as:
- Off site tape backup
- Off-site replication of data utilising SAN technologies
- Outsourced standby-by sites and systems
- Preventative measures such as:
- Local mirrors of systems and/or data and use of disk protection technology such as RAID
- Surge Protectors — to minimize the effect of power surges on delicate electronic equipment
- Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) and/or Backup Generator to keep systems going in the event of a power failure
- Anti-virus software and other security measures
