Cloud
Disaster Recovery (DRaaS)
Disaster Recovery schemes such as DRaaS are gaining a significant amount of traction with the increase in cyber crime. More and more organisations are opting for hosted Disaster Recovery schemes as the likelihood of a breach has swung more from an ‘if we get breached’ to a ‘when we get breached’
Consequentially business continuity plans are regularly involving DRaaS in some form. Equitech help organisations design DR schemes to suit their use case. Within are engagement we'll typically look at the the below notable areas when evaluating your Disaster Recovery schemes:
Key LoB
Apps
Assessing which line of business (LoB) applications are considered to be the most crucial, to design a a DR scheme where such key LoB apps are prioritised over other less essential workloads.
Budget
We understand that budgets aren't endless, so we help to scale a DR scheme to suit such budgets, balancing potential risks and essential business continuity measures, outlining how and where compromises have been made.
Cost of
Downtime
Often the true cost of downtime to an organisation isn't found until it's too late. We help to weigh up the value of DRaaS, comparing the potential risks and the cost of downtime to build a DR scheme that's most suitable.
Speed of
Invocation
We'll analyse the speed of having key services or all services live and operational once again so that an organisation can return to business as usual.
DR Tests
Scheduling regular tests of the DR schemes for full peace of mind. We have some customers opting for as regular as monthly, but most for annual tests to ensure that DR schemes are working as expected in preparation for being used in anger.
