Data Recovery Services and Business Continuity

Disaster data recovery planning is one of the cornerstones of business continuity in the digital world. Modern companies depend on both office productivity and enterprise software, which means IT recovery strategies must be designed so that technology can be restored in time to meet the needs of the business.

Why most recovery plans fail

Disaster recovery and business continuity involve complex steps that require a thorough understanding of how applications and data sets interact. There are many interdependencies across servers and databases – and they must be restored in the correct sequence. That’s why the smartest organizations record and automate their recovery process into a series of steps. Executed correctly, the organization can be restored even if the people who originally administered the applications are no longer available.

The statistics, however, are sobering:

• Natural disasters have increased by 233% since 1980 (Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters)
• A 2011 Forrester report found that as little as 1% of businesses test their backups on a daily basis
• Only 12%, 19%, and 27% review their recovery systems weekly, monthly, or quarterly, respectively
• Almost one in five organizations don’t test their disaster plans at all
• Among businesses that call data loss a major concern, more than 1 in 3 don’t know what an hour of downtime costs their company
• Over 30% of companies estimate the cost of an hour of downtime in the thousands of dollars

The missing piece: a data recovery provider

Even a well-designed DR plan can fail. Tape corruption, hard disk failure, improper backups, and human error all break plans. And when the plan fails, the last line of defense is a professional data recovery service – one that can recover data from the failed media itself, not just restore from backup.

That’s why we supplement corporate disaster recovery planning with a practical safety net: our engineers recover data when backups fail, when RAID arrays collapse, and when vendors say the data is gone. With a 98% success rate and a no-data-no-fee guarantee, we’re the backstop your continuity plan was missing.