- IT Solutions
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- Disaster Recovery
Make sure your IT environment is back up and running quickly
A hardware failure, cyber incident, or other emergency can cause critical systems and applications to become unavailable. A backup ensures that your data can be restored, but in the event of a serious IT outage, you also need to know how to get your IT environment back up and running.
With disaster recovery, you prepare for that recovery in advance. You determine which systems and applications are essential to your organization, how quickly they need to be restored, and how much data loss is acceptable. Office-IT translates those priorities into a customized recovery solution.
Prepare in advance for the recovery of your IT environment
When a serious incident occurs, you don’t want to have to figure out which systems are critical, where your data is stored, or what needs to be restored first.
That is why we establish agreements in advance regarding which systems and applications must be restored, the timeframe within which this must occur, and the acceptable level of data loss. We also define the technical measures required to achieve this and how the recovery process will be handled in the event of an incident.
Office-IT helps you develop that recovery strategy and implement it technically.
Here's how we build your disaster recovery solution
1
Analysis
2
Recovery Goals (RTO & RPO)
3
Interior Design
4
Recovery Test
5
Documentation
1
We identify critical systems and applications
Together, we’ll determine which systems and applications are essential to your day-to-day operations and which ones will be prioritized in the event of an incident.
2
We determine RTO and RPO
For each critical system, we agree on how quickly it must be restored (RTO) and the maximum acceptable amount of data loss (RPO).
3
We design and implement the recovery solution
Office-IT translates those requirements into a customized technical recovery solution and handles its implementation.
4
We're testing the recovery
We use a restore test to verify whether the planned recovery can be carried out from a technical standpoint. How and how often this happens depends on the agreed-upon services.
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We are documenting the recovery plan
We document how the recovery process should proceed and what procedures apply when a disaster recovery scenario is triggered.
When is the disaster recovery plan activated?
A disaster recovery scenario is not automatically triggered by every outage. The customer decides when to activate the recovery plan, based on the agreements set forth in advance in the disaster recovery plan.
This way, we avoid initiating an extensive recovery operation when the original environment can be restored within a short period of time. As soon as the disaster recovery plan is activated, Office IT will carry out the agreed-upon technical recovery steps.
From backup to recovery
A good backup is an important foundation for disaster recovery, but a backup alone does not ensure that your entire IT environment will be back up and running.
Disaster recovery, therefore, goes beyond simply storing and restoring data. The systems and applications you need to continue working are also included in the recovery strategy.
This way, not only is a copy of your data available, but careful consideration has also been given in advance to how you will resume operations after a serious incident.
OiT Cloud Backup as part of your recovery strategy
A separate backup outside your own IT environment can be a key component of your disaster recovery plan.
With OiT Cloud Backup, we store a separate copy of your backup on our infrastructure in a Belgian Tier IV data center. If your local environment is affected, this copy will remain available for recovery.
Backup, disaster recovery, and redundancy complement each other
Each of the three solutions has a different function.
Backups ensure that your data can be restored. Disaster Recovery outlines how to restore systems and applications to operational status after a serious incident. Redundancy ensures that an alternative system takes over operations when a critical component fails.
The combination you need depends on your IT environment and on which systems are essential to your day-to-day operations.
These customers entrust their IT continuity to Office-IT
Have you got your recovery plan all figured out?
Together, we’ll identify which systems and applications are essential to your organization, how quickly they need to be restored, and how much data loss is acceptable. Office-IT translates those agreements into a disaster recovery plan and a customized technical recovery solution.
Thanks to the fast connections between sites, backup data can be synchronised, ensuring that in case of an incident, the latest data is always available.
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