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Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery
What is Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery?
In order to properly define and explain these two phrases, we must first define a disaster. To start with, a disaster can be either natural or man-made. A natural disaster falls into the realm of weather related such as storms, severe weather, flooding, or anything considered an ‘act of God.’ The second is man-made which is considered hardware failure, infrastructure failure such as power or communications, or a software related failure including viruses, operating system failures, etc.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery have many connotations in the business world, so we will dispel the confusion here. Simply stated, Business Continuity (BC) is the ability, or systems in place to allow the ability, for your company to continue basic business functions in the event of a disaster. These functions include providing customer assistance, performing financial functions, and management of human resources. Disaster Recovery (DR) is the processes, facilities, and methods used to recover fully from a disaster while still providing business services.
SAS-70 Highlights
What is SAS-70 and how does it affect me? Basically, SAS-70 is the regulations and guidelines outlined in the legislative act termed as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The key components of this legislative act are reporting and responsibilities for all businesses, internal business process controls, and protection of data as it relates to security and availability. This legislative act applies to all companies, big or small, public or private. NACIO2’s solutions are an extremely cost effective method of meeting the data management responsibilities as outlined in the Sarbanes-Oxley act.
Business Continuity Needs Answered
NACIO2 can provide for companies methods to provide either off-site data processing or data storage. Using various technologies available in today’s market, we can provide either; failover datacenter with warm-site solutions or primary datacenter services in conjunction with our facility in San Antonio, Texas as the failover facility. Call or email our Account Executives today to schedule your Business Continuity needs analysis.
Disaster Recovery Needs Answered
NACIO2 has a myriad of DR solutions for the customer to choose from. Our Terasafe product can provide direct or staged data-vaulting for data redundancy, our backup-to-disk solution for NACIO2 located systems with redundancy replication to our San Antonio, Texas facility, or other solutions that are available will provide methods of data redundancy for a company with a significantly lower TCO than many other solutions.