IT infrastructure and solutions are now a critical enabler for businesses implementing disruptive software applications that deliver superior services to delight more customers, thereby growing their business revenues.

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Thus CTOs, CIOs and IT Managers constantly have it behind their minds how to keep their organizations’ IT Infrastructure always running and without down time.

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There are many possible failure areas to consider in ensuring the smooth operation of IT systems.
From making sure there are no single points of failure for IT hardware (Server, Network, Storage, etc.) to ensuring redundancies in the environment where IT hardware is hosted (e.g. Data Center power supply, cooling systems etc).

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However, some areas may be beyond human controls.
Natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, lightning fires etc. that might destroy data centres hosting the IT systems.

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Hence businesses even consider having multiple IT systems in different physical locations to insure themselves against natural disasters destroying their critical IT Infrastructure and therefore crippling their business operations.

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In Business Continuity Planning, organizations look at a wider picture that involves considering activating workaround solutions for different business functions, such as Human Resource Management, Supplier, Customers Management, Business Processes Adjustments, Internal and External communications.

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IT Disaster Recovery (IT DR) Solutions is only one component of an overall Business Continuity Plan.

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IT Disaster Recovery Solutions focuses on how to quickly restore IT functions/operations.

 

Two key parameters considered for IT DR:
Recovery Time Objective (RTO) – How fast the IT functions need to be restored ?
Recovery Point Objective (RPO) – How much data can the business afford to lose on a restored IT system.