PROACTIVE SERVICES
What would happen to your company if you had no email access for two
weeks?
If a catastrophe occurred and you had to move to a whole new office,
could you restore your entire network? Have you tested your restore?
Just because a backup worked, doesn’t mean a restore will too! Too many
of our clients have found that out the hard way.
Are you prepared for situations like:
- An earthquake toppling your server towers?
- The bathroom on the floor above you overflowing Friday night?
- An AC unit falling through the roof and crashing into your
server room?
- An accidental fire racing through your building?
- A virus getting into your network , damaging it so badly
everything has to be shut down and rebuilt?
- Are you sure you have all the documentation, licensing codes,
password lists, and reliable data on backups to avoid shutting down
in the wake of emergencies like these?
Disasters are things no one wants to plan for. But making a Disaster
Recovery Plan gives you crucial protection for your business, with ways
to prevent losing it all in the wake of an emergency.
In the wake of catastrophes in recent years, many companies suffered
badly. Some had to close their doors. Yet almost 4 out of 5 companies
today still don’t have any disaster recovery plan in place. Do you? Are
you prepared for the worst?
Things to Consider About Disaster Recovery
- If your business email was down for 10 business days could you
establish the value of what the damages from that would be – lost
sales opportunities, negative impact on customer perception,
inability to meet requirements, inability to meet legal or
regulatory requirements?
- Are you doing regular backups of your core infrastructure
(servers, client data, website, Active Directory, etc.)?
- If so, when was the last time you tested restoring the whole
infrastructure including DNS, Active Directory, Files, Print Shares,
Remote Access, Email, LOB applications and databases from your
backups?
- Have you documented your disaster recovery procedures? Do you
have any?
- When was the last time you ran a “fire drill?”
- If your top two IT people were out of the country, and you had a
disaster occur, would you have the necessary knowledge and resources
to get up and running again?
Choose Kingsoft to assist in disaster recovery planning. We address all
of its aspects, from early precautions to emergency repairs, based on
our own experience-tested methods and the industry’s best practice
standards. These are our 4 listed Disaster Recovery Services.
Kingsoft Disaster Recovery Services
- Disaster Recovery Plans – Disaster Recovery
Planning tells you where you may have holes in your infrastructure’s
stability, where the highest risk for damage is, and what procedures
to undertake in the event of a disaster. Any complete disaster plan
covers 2 perspectives: network crashes and catastrophe planning.
Holes in your network may be fixable, or too expensive to properly
address (for example, all-new servers with no budget). Either way,
it’s better to know – if an emergency occurs, you have a good idea
where the problem started.
Catastrophe planning helps you understand a disaster’s costs to your
business, and how you can mitigate them. Factors in this risk
assessment include:
- The daily value of your systems (i.e. how much you could
lose each day you’re down)
- How likely certain disasters are, and where you’re most
vulnerable
- What your insurance covers, and what it doesn’t (new
clients, time to replace hardware)
- Steps you can take now, and in the event of a disaster, to
minimize damage
- “Fire Drills” – Kingsoft uses “fire drills” to
evaluate how ready your infrastructure is for disaster recovery.
Using a Kingsoft simulated environment or customer-provided test
beds, we validate the quality of your network documentation, data
backups, and restore procedures. We then ask your key users to
verify that the restored data would work for them. If you’re
trusting backups to save you, then they should work 100%.
- Business Continuity Assistance – Specialty
firms called “Business Continuity Planning Firms” exist to help
companies who’ve lost their offices due to disasters. These firms
provide an entire environment for their customers: accounting,
telecom service, networks, etc.
We help in evaluating whether expanding your disaster recovery plan
into a business continuity plan will benefit you. To address
precautions like these, we look at questions like:
- Do you need to consider business continuity preparation?
- If so, for what systems?
- What Business Continuity Planning Firm is best suited to
cover those systems?
- Emergency Services – When something’s already
broken badly enough that everyday operations are disrupted, Kingsoft
provides emergency repair services. Examples of Emergency Services
include:
- Restoring crashed servers
- Troubleshooting broken networks
- Rebuilding Active Directory
Reasons to Plan
Prevention: Think of disaster recovery planning as an
“ounce of prevention” for modern business. It helps you evaluate risks
to your organization, whether it’s from servers crashing or from
physical damage to your network.
Disaster Plans Save Money: If emergency services are
required, scrambling to replace hardware or rebuild an infrastructure
can quickly result in high costs. A Disaster Recovery Plan gets a jump
on emergencies, providing an agreed-upon response procedure and budget.
So one method of recovery won’t bankrupt you if it isn’t successful.
You’ll Love It When You Need It: When disaster strikes,
those who have a plan are more confident in their ability to recover.
Those who don’t have a plan scramble, taking longer to recover (and
sometimes don’t).
