Storm Technologies

The time is now

For many organisations that have business continuity plans the most difficult decision is deciding when to invoke these arrangements.

Of course, if the building has been destroyed by flood or fire, then it is a simple decision; no building, then relocate the office and recover all of the IT systems. However, if the problem faced is an IT system failure (crucial hard-drive crash, for instance) or an incident that only temporarily removes the organisation from the building, the decision becomes much more sticky. This is due to the fact that recovering IT systems from “Point in Time” back-ups (such as removable media) is disruptive, time consuming and means the loss of all transactions between the last backup and the incident.

Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is the acceptable amount of business transactions an organisation is prepared to lose if they recover from a backup. Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the amount of time acceptable to a company for the recovery of the systems after a disaster.

“Today, a system interruption is a disaster”
 

An organisation rebuilding from traditional point in time back-up risks losing all of the data from the last successful back-up through to the point of the incident/disaster. Recovering systems from traditional back-ups is technically complex, very time consuming and can result in many valuable hours or days of lost system availability.

Capital Continuity’s Business Interruption Protection Services (BIPs) are designed to provide true business and critical systems continuity. Servers protected by BIPs are replicated in “real-time”. This means that the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) or “How much data will we lose due to this failure?” is near-zero. The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) or “How long will the recovery take to be finished?” is just minutes.

“Recover a ‘complete’ system of 1, 2, 10 or 50 Terabytes in minutes”

Once implemented, BIPs mitigates the effects of those minor system outages that costs an organisation crucial downtime. These same interruptions traditionally can have a significant impact on productivity and business confidence alongside the traditional “disaster” scenarios.