Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Solutions

Every organization requires a business continuity plan for their company. All too often we have seem organizations lose their data because procedures were not in place to verify and test their backup system effectiveness. Even if you are backing up successfully, you need to make sure that in a catastrophy such as a fire or an occurrence that destroys your building that you could get back in business in a very short time.

Minimally, an organization must make sure their back up is successfully run each day. Second, a copy of the back up must be taken off site each day a back up is made to make sure you have a current copy of you data in case of destruction of your building and IT equipment. Third, test that the data on a set of tapes can actually be recovered from the tape media. Lastly, Clean tape drives on a regular basis and replace tapes about once a year.

SPI Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Services

• SPI’s Proactive Performance Program electronically monitors the back up process and alerts the NOC if the nightly backup fails. In addition, an engineer on a periodic basis tests the tape quality by recovering a sample of the files on the tape.

• SPI provides a disaster recovery service option for off site storage in a fireproof safe for your data. If you elect to use this service, SPI will pick up and return copies of your tapes on a prescheduled basis.

• SPI also provides an Electronic Data Vaulting Service for your system. The tape system is replaced with a disk to disk system to electronically back up you data from one or more servers to an encrypted hard drive. Instead of waiting until the end of the day, your data can be saved on a more frequent basis. Your backup copy can be as less than an hour old saving significant time in reentering your daily transaction in case a failure. The disk system also transmits the data over the Internet in an encrypted mode to two redundant US data centers to meet off site requirements. As part of this secure solution, a virtual server capability within the disk system allows you to be up and running in a few hours even if your server cannot be repaired quickly.