Hosted Continuity facilitates IT system audits to analyse existing Disaster Recovery, IT and communications capabilities to obtain a true measure of an organisation's systems and preparedness. This process often includes:
Inspections of relevant client sites.
Interviews with appropriate staff and 3rd party vendors as required.
Familiarisation with current infrastructure environment including hardware, software, business systems, network, communications, telephony, data backup & restore processes.
Review of existing DR policies, procedures and other relevant documentation.
Review of any committed infrastructure project activity.
Review of relevant standards, compliance or regulatory requirements.
Review of any existing DR/Business Continuity measures.
Gap Analysis
On completion of an IT Systems Audit Hosted Continuity can perform a gap analysis to measure an organisation's current level of preparedness against its 'business' requirements. All key deficiencies are clearly identified in a succinct report and practical recommendations provided. This includes rationale, comparative options, source information and cost estimates. Recommendations serve as a key roadmap for future planning and often include consideration for:
IT related hardware and infrastructure
Software and application requirements
Disaster avoidance systems and solutions.
Procedural requirements
Property related requirements
Alternate site locations
General business continuity, risk and crisis management requirements
Other critical dependencies.
Disaster Recovery Plans and Solution
Hosted Continuity can develop a practical, integrated Disaster Recovery Plan for an organisation to support their infrastructure capabilities and business recovery requirements. A Hosted Continuity Disaster Recovery Plan will enable an organisation to commence effective recovery of specific IT functions immediately following a business disruption. This may include:
Incident classification and assessment tools.
Checklists and response protocols.
IT management reporting structures.
Specific Disaster Recovery roles responsibilities.
Recommendation of Hosted Continuity revolutionary Managed Disaster Recovery service
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