In today’s electronically-based corporate world, disaster recovery is vital to any business continuity plan. The catastrophic events of September 11th and Hurricane Katrina, while extreme examples of both human and natural disasters, have recently heightened awareness and technology surrounding disaster recovery. Even smaller events such as power outages and computer viruses can compromise the safety of electronic information.
By considering the data, systems, and people in your business, you can find a disaster recovery solution that fits your business needs and budget. CUC Solutions provides backup and restore systems, archiving software, and data replication or mirroring software to help your business protect and preserve its information. At CUC Solutions, you can choose from several types of disaster recovery components, which vary by cost, efficiency, and appropriateness to your business needs:
- Disk-to-disk
- Disk-to-tape
- Disk-to-optical (DVD)
- Virtual disk/tape methodologies
CUC Solutions specializes in aligning your business with an effective disaster recovery plan that involves both backup and restore and archiving technologies. Offsite data storage is vital to disaster recovery, particularly in the case of natural disasters such as floods and fires, but the timeframe in which you can access and restore your data is also paramount to a successful disaster recovery. Some technologies allow you to access data within seconds, while others may take days. Your need for fast acquisition depends upon your particular business type, but speedy recovery solutions are a high priority at CUC.
Backups and archives serve distinct functions in business continuity planning and disaster recovery solutions. Backup and restore technology entails the copying of production data to an alternative data storage medium for restorability in the event of data loss, corruption or unavailability. In other words, it replicates your current data on a disk, tape, or DVD, and stores those components offsite to protect them from hazards such as electrical failures, natural disasters, or human error. Restoring these backups allows you to return to business as usual.
Archiving has a historical component to it. While it may be necessary to keep electronic data for a certain amount of months or years to comply with federal regulations, you may not need such data for everyday business. However, should disaster strike, your accountability for the information does not change. Archiving protects this information and your federal compliance by retaining historical data for future access.
Data disaster recovery, much like an insurance policy, involves purchasing backup and restore systems that, in case of an emergency, will allow businesses to be up-and-running again without having lost vital digital records. This is often within the scope of a business continuity plan. A report conducted by the University of Texas Center for Research on Information Systems concluded that 90 percent of business who lost electronic data in a natural disaster folded in less than two years, while an astounding 50 percent went under along with the data loss.
While some threats are unforeseeable, the first step towards implementing disaster recovery is always planning. Consider the possible disasters of all proportions that could devastate your business by destroying data:
- Power outages
- Telecommunications failures
- Hardware & software problems
- Computer viruses
- Hacker invasions
- Natural disasters such as fire, flood, and earthquake
- Human error
CUC Solutions provides both hardware and software products to integrate backup and restore and archiving systems into your data disaster recovery plan. Whatever the size or industry of your business, it is not immune to forces of nature or human mistakes. Data disaster recovery solutions protect your data and the life of your business by ensuring that your electronic information remains safe, accessible, and functional in the event of a catastrophic loss.
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