8 Tips for a Disaster Recovery Plan

Can your business afford the dire consequences of a data breach, network outage, ransomware attack, or even a natural disaster like a fire or flood?

Any business, regardless of size or industry, is vulnerable to a disaster. And it's not enough to just hope it doesn't happen to your business; you need to put proper preventive measures in place. Taking the time to implement a solid backup, disaster recovery and business continuity plan can help ensure you get back up and running in little time if the unthinkable should happen.

At minimum, your company should have the following infrastructure for a duplicate environment in place:

1. Facilities to house the infrastructure, including power and cooling.
   
2. The disaster recovery environment’s location and source of infrastructure should be a significant physical distance apart. This ensures that the disaster recovery environment is isolated from faults that could impact the source site.
   
3. Security to ensure the physical protection of assets.
4. Suitable capacity to scale the environment.
   
5. Support for repairing, replacing, and refreshing the infrastructure.
   
6. Contractual agreements with an Internet service provider (ISP) to provide Internet connectivity that can sustain bandwidth utilization for the environment under a full load.
   
7. Network infrastructure such as firewalls, routers, switches, and load balancers.
   
8. Enough server capacity to run all mission-critical services, including:

• Storage appliances for supporting data.
• Servers to run applications and backend services such as user authentication, Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), monitoring, and alerting.

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Moving your data to the cloud is not just ideal, but is an easy and affordable way to keep it safe and secure. And with the cloud, you won't need the added infrastructure expense of a second physical site.

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