Disaster recovery planning is essential for modern businesses. When IT systems suddenly go down, the incident triggers anxiety in users and customers, as well as unleashing operational chaos.
Senior Solutions Architect at ProActive Solutions Aaron Brown recounts how the first IT recovery challenge he faced happened over the holidays when he was working as an engineer at a large healthcare organization. Aaron remembers “Our reporting warehouse, over 4 terabytes crashed. And it happened on Christmas Eve. Our backups were offsite on tape.”
Watch the brief video to get Aaron’s insights on the negative consequences of not having a disaster recovery plan.
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Aaron’s story illustrates how traditional backup methods, such as tape backups, often fall short in today’s fast-paced environments, slowing recovery time and extending costly outages. Modern organizations require faster, more flexible backup solutions for real-time resilience.
ProActive Solutions has helped clients move from physical tape to logical replication and virtualization for faster recovery. By leveraging advanced replication services, businesses can achieve rapid failover and greater control over critical data.
When outdated recovery solutions prolong downtime, companies experience financial and reputational losses. Aaron emphasizes the return on investment (ROI) of recovery planning by quoting the adage “Time is Money.” He goes on to explain that when someone at a company he worked for asked “’How much do we lose per hour if our systems go down?’ The answer was about a million dollars per hour. That changed everything.”
Modern recovery solutions have many advantages that lessen the cost of outages, including reduced recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs), as well as automated testing and compliance support. Faster recovery means uninterrupted operations and high availability, factors that build customer trust.
When working with businesses, ProActive Solutions follows a 5-step roadmap for developing disaster recovery plans.
Assessment: Audit system risks and define recovery priorities
Design: Architect a custom replication and backup plan
Implementation: Deploy and configure the chosen solution
Testing: Conduct failover drills and validate RTOs and RPOs
Ongoing Support: Monitor performance, update configurations, and continuously refine your plan
ProActive Solutions uses our consultative approach to create a tailormade disaster recovery plan for your organization. That’s why we are offering a consultation to help you modernize recovery.
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