Business Continuity, Data Replication, Disaster Recovery and Interruption Protection from Capital Continuity

For many organisations that have business continuity plans the most difficult decision is deciding when to invoke these arrangements.

Of course, if the building has been destroyed by flood or fire, then it is a simple decision; no building, then relocate the office and recover all the IT systems. However, if the problem faced is an IT system failure (crucial hard-drive crash, for instance) or an incident that only temporarily removes the organisation from the building, the decision becomes much more sticky. This is due to the fact that recovering IT systems from “Point in Time” back-ups (i.e. a tape drive) is disruptive, time consuming and means the loss of all transactions between the last backup and the incident.

RPO, or Recovery Point Objective, is the acceptable amount of business transactions an organisation is prepared to lose if they recover from a backup. RTO, or Recovery Time Objective, is the amount of time acceptable to a company for the recovery of the systems after a disaster.

An organisation rebuilding from traditional point in time back-ups, such as removable media,  risks losing all of the data from the last successful back-up through to the point of the incident/disaster. Recovering systems from traditional back-ups is technically complex, very time consuming and can result in many days of lost system availability.

BIP services provides:

• RPO of 0 to minimal loss of data.
• RTO of 15 minutes

BIPs can be invoked for any incident that interrupts normal use of the protected systems – no exceptions.

BIPs Technical Engineers are available to respond to invocations of the service 24/7. A simple telephone call to Capital Continuity and within 15 minutes the failed system will be rebuilt and ready for use.