Business Continuity

A properly planned and implemented disaster recovery plan makes it possible to retrieve lost data and resume normal system operations. This is a critical part of IT at all levels—especially those involving the storage of long-term or permanent records on electronic media.

A solid recovery plan may also help you fulfill audit requirements and maintain audit trails in fiscal systems. For many applications, multiple copies and/or generations of backups may be required.

The Sarbanes Oxley Act

One of the requirements on the Sarbanes Oxley Act is that systems containing financial data maintained by publicly traded companies be periodically backed up—and that the backup media is stored in a secure offsite location. It also requires that a periodic test be run to prove that financial systems can be recovered from backup if a disaster strikes.

A proper disaster recovery plan must 1) restore the integrity of the computer systems in the event of a hardware/software failure or physical disaster, and 2) provide a means of protection against human error and the inadvertent deletion of important files.

The design of your backup/recovery solutions must take into account your business requirements as well as your operating environment. The Prosper-IT team of disaster-recovery experts employs solutions that are predictable, reliable and capable of processing data as quickly as possible. The challenges of managing data include:

• Ensuring 99.9999 percent service availability
• Managing growth in data voumes
• Operating within short (or non-existent) backup windows
• Supporting existing IT systems that cannot run the latest technologies
• Assessing data value so that the most appropriate strategies can be applied to each type of data

Using Prosper-IT for disaster recovery/business continuity will help your company through the process of making the best design and implementation decisions based on common business criteria, as well as your own unique business needs.

There’s no “one size fits all” design, so we rely on proven, tested best-practice standards for an optimized solution.