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Disaster Recovery:  Hype or Reality?


Disaster Recovery Service is all the rage for the marketing plans of IT Service Providers nowadays.  "Ask about our complete Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning Services."  Do they want you to ask?  Really?

Before you purchase one of these plans, check out your service provider - it's really easy to buy boilerplate advertising copy from a marketing consultant.  It's another thing altogether to actually recover part or all of your IT Infrastructure.  When they say "Ask about our total Disaster Recovery solution" you should take them up on the offer.  Here are a few of the questions you should ask:

  • Have they ever actually done Business Impact Analysis of server applications?  Can they show you an example?
  • Do they know how much it costs your business when a given app is down?
  • Do they know what Recovery Time Objective means?  
  • How about Recovery Point Objective?
  • Do they have an actual written Business Continuity plan they can show you?
  • Does their plan include a Disaster Recovery kit onsite and offsite?  What's in the kit?
  • Have they ever actually tested a Disaster Recovery?  How often?  Was it successful?
  • Have they ever successfully recovered all or part of an IT Infrastructure?  
  • Do they have real-world experience using Disaster Recovery tools and restoring infrastructure?

Real World Experience

P3iSystems engineering staff have nearly 30 years of technology experience including over 15 years of data center experience in Fortune 500 companies.  That experience includes real-world disaster recovery planning for hundreds of servers and the actual recovery of dozens of servers and applications of varied types, from email to ERP to Document Management to Data Warehouses in disaster recovery tests and real world disasters where loss of servers or data meant a business absolutely, positively had to get their data back.

More than a Marketing Slogan

For your business you need more than a marketing slogan - you need someone who has the real-world experience with business impact analysis, disaster recovery planning, testing and execution and business continuity best practices.  At P3iSystems our engineers have real world experience from working in Fortune 500 Enterprises - and we bring that experience to bear for your small business.

P3iSystems:  Enterprise-class Technology Services for Small Business.

Really.

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