Top 2 Reasons Why IT Disasters Overwhelm Companies

Disaster recovery has one unforgiving truth—the success of the recovery completely depends on how well you’ll plan/strategize and test. In short, you need to have a specific, workable, and deployable disaster strategy in place. Whenever there’s an IT disaster, you, the business owner, must recover your company’s IT ecosystem in the shortest turnaround.

For instance, think as if you’re getting ready for playing a football game. If you’re unaware of the rules, then how will you play? And, most importantly, even if you’re aware of the rules, have you practiced enough to succeed? Even though you’ll be on the field for merely ninety minutes, you’ll have practice for thousands of hours. Apart from practice, you’ll have to strategize, test, and refine your game every second. Same is the case with disaster recovery—you can’t expect to commit a folly anytime when you’re on the site.

So disasters happen, and they need to be averted. Here, disaster recovery solutions come into play; they need to be implemented. But, now, it seems, the IT support teams can even overlook a couple of details while strategizing; and here are the two most common things that many IT support teams tend to ignore while planning for disasters.

Who needs a plan when we’ve got a turnkey solution?

Most companies buy a range of turnkey DRaaS solutions, and these businesses expect such services to protect them come what may. You know, a turnkey solution has been crafted so that it can perform better regardless of the situations. And a turnkey solution, to some extent, performs similarly; for instance, it can simplify all the tier-one apps to make them up and running whenever a disaster strikes the business’s IT ecosystem. However, every business is unique; and that’s why it needs a uniquely designed solution. For example, what if your tier-one application is dependent on the tier-three databases? In such cases, even a turnkey solution will offer a little help; that’s why it’s necessary to have a plan to locate such interdependencies and even recover accordingly.

We’ve got a small-sized business that can be operational in 24 hours

If you’ve strategized to let your IT system become functional within a span of 24 hours and if you’ve got a small-sized business, then you’re spending way too much on your disaster recovery. For instance, you needn’t back up your DevTest resources immediately. Disaster recovery is a simple process where you’ll have to channelize the IT acumen and technological prowess to revive critical apps first; afterward, in the coming 24 hours, you can focus on revived tier-two applications; and last but not least, you’ll recover the tier-three structure in the coming 72 hours. Each tier can be prioritized, and that’s how you’ll save oodles of resources (cash, actually).

Other critical part of the disaster recovery includes data recovery services, too. So keep in mind these two points and never let any IT disaster to affect your business ecosystem for a long, long time.

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