What Is Missing From Your BCDR Plan?

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery are often treated as one thing. They’re not.

Most companies complete a Business Impact Analysis before building their BC/DR plans. And most plans are missing one critical element.

What businesses are missing

What would you do if the media set your recovery plan depends on becomes unavailable?

Many IT organizations assume their RAID configuration will always protect them. We’ve had corporate customers lose two drives in a RAID 5 – and even three drives in a RAID 6. No redundancy level survives every scenario, and most companies never consider that until it happens to them.

BC/DR plans fail for any number of reasons: tape corruption, hard disk failure, improper backups, human error. When they do, IT administrators often fall back on their storage manufacturer – believing the vendor is most qualified to retrieve data from its own devices. But manufacturers’ tech support focuses on getting hardware running as quickly as possible, and they usually assume you have a backup. Vendors know their hardware; they are not experts in data corruption and specialized recovery.

The missing element: a professional recovery backstop

The most reliable way to survive a data loss event is to supplement your BC/DR plan with a data recovery service provider that can:

• Recover data from failed RAID, NAS, and server arrays when backups fail
• Work remotely (via ARRM) to minimize downtime
• Handle emergency priority when patient data or production systems are at risk
• Sign NDAs and follow corporate security requirements

The ACE RAID Recovery Corporate Business Continuity Program

We offer a simple, low-maintenance program that gives corporations priority access to our services and tools for fast, effective media recovery – free of charge, with no contracts and no minimum quotas. It fills the gap in your BC/DR plan: when the plan fails, you’re already a priority.