disaster recovery vs. business continuity
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Disaster Recovery vs. Business Continuity
And The Cost of Downtime
Are they the same?Disaster Recovery and Business
Continuity are stemmed from the same general idea: in the event of a disaster,
keep the business running as quickly and as seamlessly as possible.
However, Disaster Recovery is a reactive solution and Business Continuity is a
proactive solution for businesses.
Goal of Disaster RecoveryTo ensure that the data is recovered in the event of a downtime disaster – without the loss of that critical data.
Goal of Business Continuity
To allow businesses to continue running without interruptions or to operate in real-time and pick up a falling component seamlessly so a business experiences no downtime
in the first place.
Combining the two……actually allows a business to go back to
a prior backup made by the Disaster Recovery replication site and recover from that virus or corruption at a time
before the invasion occurred.
Key TermsDisaster Recovery– The ability to handle site failure with
minimal disruption to the business
Continuous Operations (CO)– The ability to perform routine application
and server maintenance and backups with minimal disruption to the supported business function – focused on eliminating downtime associated with planned events
Key TermsContinuous Availability (CA)– The continuous availability of critical business
functions - focused on eliminated planned and unplanned downtime as well as server, site and enterprise protection
High Availability (HA)– The ability to handle application failures with
minimal disruptions to the business - focused on continuous operations and recovery of server failure
Key TermsBusiness Continuity – Focused not only on eliminating the
risks of downtime to your IT assets, it includes the people and process to handle an unplanned event that affects the entire business or a region in which the business operates. It includes IT functions along with pre-arranged processes for alerting employees and customers to a disaster, and the preparation and testing of disaster preparedness plans.
Sources of Unplanned Downtime
Natural Disasters• Wildfires• Floods & Flash Floods• Hurricanes• Tornadoes• Thunderstorms & Lightning • Snow, Ice & Winter Storms• Tsunamis & Other Tidal
Action• Dam Breaks• Volcanoes• Earthquakes
Man-Made Disasters• Home & Building Fires• Tripping Over the Power
Cord• Hazardous Material
Accidents• Spilling Coffee or Water on
Critical Piece of Hardware• Terrorism• Aviation Accidents• Ship/Maritime Accidents• Train/Railroad Accidents• Riots/Civil Unrest• Bridge Collapses• Nuclear/Radiological
Accidents
Downtime & Its CostsUnplanned downtime: Unpredictable events that cause an outage; usually related to power, natural disaster or human error. Unplanned downtime typically represents less than 5 percent of all downtime.
Planned downtime: Planned downtime occurs when you purposely bring systems, databases, applications or networks down for maintenance or backup activities, including daily/weekly saves, batch jobs, database reorganizations, application and system upgrades, system maintenance, performance tuning and other activities.
Assessing the Financial Impact of Downtime
Determining the financial cost of downtime can vary with the severity of the data or application that experienced the downtime, the time of day, the
number of users affected, and more.
Calculating the costs can be difficult and many of the direct and indirect costs are likely not
immediately apparent.
Tangible/Direct Costs• Lost transaction
revenue• Lost wages• Lost inventory• Remedial labor costs• Marketing costs• Bank fees• Legal penalties
Intangible/Indirect Costs• Lost business
opportunities• Loss of employee and/or
employee moral• Decrease in stock value• Loss of customer/partner
goodwill• Brand damage• Driving business to
competitor• Bad publicity/press
Potential Costs
What to Consider
5 Steps to Determine Optimum Availability
• Determine the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective)
• Determine which applications and data are the most critical and how much downtime would be acceptable for each
• Assess the ability of your staff to conduct emergency-scenario operations
• Determine how you will assure the viability and reliability of the backup data and applications to ensure that the backup version will be up to standards
• Prepare a budget
Summaryof companies experienced one or more periods of downtime in the past 12 months.
of SMBs do not have a DR plan in place.
are in areas where they are prone to natural disasters.
86%
50%
65%These issues can be avoided by having a Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plan in place. Take advantage of scalability, reliability, recovery, and peace of mind!
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