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Business Continuity Planning

Continuity planning is increasingly seen as an essential requirement in today's environment. The ability to maintain continued access to applications and data in the event of a hard drive crash, virus, outage or disaster is vital.

Best Practices

Relying 100% on traditional data backup and restore will not assure complete recovery to normal operations. Data protection is a critical base component, but business continuity plans must include system-wide contingencies to ensure complete disaster recovery.

For true business continuity achievement, plans must include:

  • Local and off-site backup policies for user data, applications, databases and operating systems
  • Bare metal backup and hardware independent recovery
  • Ability to access applications and data in a virtual environment
  • Monitoring and diagnostics for proper backup and recovery executions

ABS Enterprise ®

A complete business continuity solution engineered for growing organizations.  ABS Enterprise is a fully managed service providing enterprise-class data protection and disaster recovery for Windows servers and workstations. 

Business Continuity Solution

The solution leverages both local and off-site data storage, bare metal backup and hardware independent recovery, comprehensive system monitoring, plus on-site and off-site virtual recovery hosting. 

ABS Technicians available 24x7x365 manage backup operations, monitor the system environment and restore data, applications, or entire servers, without client or IT resource involvement.

Reduce downtime with complete server recovery: OS, applications, all data and configuration restored in 2 hours. Automate processes and achieve 4x faster recovery vs. tape backup.

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MANAGED DISASTER RECOVERY

Operational downtime is real and comes at a significant cost.  Consider the following scenarios.

Business Continuity Data Backup Solutions

Scenario 1 – Loss of a Single Server

The most common “disaster” faced by organizations.  A typical recovery scenario involves 1-2 days downtime to procure replacement hardware, install all software and re-configure the system. Achieve complete server recovery in less than two hours with ABS Enterprise. 

The most recent backup image: OS, applications, data and configuration is stored locally on an ABS Appliance and replicated off-site.  ABS Technicians access and restore the latest server image.  The image is restored to a replacement or temporary unit, accessed locally via ABS Appliance or virtually at our primary datacenter.  Operations resume, downtimes slashed and potential losses spared.

Business Continuity Planning

Scenario 2 – Complete site outage

Operations come to a halt.  Every hour of downtime compounds overhead costs and lost revenue. When a site outage occurs, your IT infrastructure can be accessed in a virtual environment while the central location is addressed.

Users are re-routed to continue work at a temporary or remote location. Once the infrastructure is re-built, ABS restores all data and systems, including prior state plus new data added to the servers at the ABS Recovery Site. Recovery is flexible and hardware independent.

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