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In a world that runs on real-time data, connectivity, and speed, nothing derails operations faster than a cyber-incident. From startups to enterprise organizations, the reliance on always-on digital systems makes one thing clear: when a breach happens, your Disaster Recovery and DR Plan is the final barrier between a temporary disruption – and a complete operational crisis.

It’s not just about preventing attacks. It’s about recovering fast when prevention fails.

It’s Time to Update Your Disaster Recovery Plan

In recent years, businesses have faced an unprecedented range of challenges, underscoring the importance of proactive preparedness. It’s more critical to anticipate and plan for potential business problems than ever. The pandemic challenged organizations and IT networks to adapt quickly, as remote work became the new normal in many industries. Businesses prepared to adapt rapidly were able to pivot with minimal loss of income.

In addition, natural disasters are an ever-present threat. Wildfires, tornados, and other extreme weather events are on the rise and becoming more destructive. These evolving threats highlight the need for companies to be prepared for unforeseen crises and disruptions.

The frequency and impact of cyberattacks are another area of concern. 59% of companies worldwide suffered a ransomware attack. This is particularly alarming, as only 55% of organizations have a disaster response plan in place.

Businesses must mitigate their risk and plan for minimal downtime. Resilience lies in having a comprehensive and up-to-date disaster recovery strategy built on a realistic risk assessment, operational analysis and a detailed, well-tested disaster response plan.

To ensure your business is adequately prepared, creating a disaster response plan and actively maintaining it with periodic reviews – at least once a year – as your IT environment changes. With a sound preparedness strategy and frequent updates, your business will stay ready for any disaster that may arise.

Start with a Realistic Risk Assessment

A solid disaster recovery plan starts with a realistic risk assessment of specific threats your business faces. These risks are constantly evolving, which is why it’s best practice to conduct risk assessments on a regular basis — at least annually. If it’s been a while since your last assessment, begin by identifying vulnerabilities in your IT systems, networks, security, hardware, and data storage etc. Are your hardware or servers nearing end of life? Older equipment can pose unique security risks that require more vigilant protocols.

Assess hardware & operating systems integrity regularly to prevent vulnerabilities from outdated technology. Research and evaluate emerging risks in the cyber threat landscape that can impact your company. It is essential to integrate strategies that address emerging trends in your disaster recovery plan.

Weather patterns and other environmental risks also deserve careful consideration. For example, are experts predicting severe thunderstorms or flooding in your area? Is your organization vulnerable to natural disruptions? As you read the news of wildfires, tornadoes and hurricanes across the U.S., ask yourself how your organization might deal with similar circumstances. By facing the possibilities head on, you and your team can begin to prioritize readiness.

Operational Analysis: Building Business Resilience

The next critical step in disaster recovery planning is conducting an operational analysis. This allows you to evaluate day-to-day operations and identify new risks that may have emerged. Establish standardized procedures and documentation for onboarding and offboarding employees. For instance, once employees leave your company, ensure that all their accounts are deactivated. If your workforce is transitioning back to the office or adopting a hybrid model, have a plan in place to track both physical assets and online activities.

This analysis should also extend to your data backup systems. Are backups stored in geographically remote locations and the cloud? How quickly can you restore critical data and applications if disaster strikes? Regularly testing data backups and ensuring you have a full inventory — by both status and location — is essential for mitigating risk. Don’t rely solely on cloud storage. Prepare contingencies in case you lose access to your cloud-based backup systems.

Align your disaster recovery plan with current compliance standards to ensure it meets evolving regulations. As part of this analysis, consider performing a data and application criticality assessment. Companies in the medical industry, for instance, must comply with HIPAA requirements stating IT systems be prioritized based on their importance. It’s a prudent model that all organizations can follow. Identify which applications and systems must be restored immediately following a disruption and which can wait a few hours, or even days. By defining a clear hierarchy, you can more easily set priorities for teams and ensure recovery efforts will focus on critical operations first to minimize disruption. Be sure to communicate these priorities with everyone on your recovery team and maintain transparent reporting procedures and documentation.

Updating, Refining Your Disaster Recovery Plan

Once your risk assessment and operational analysis are complete, it’s time to update your disaster recovery plan. Our ebook, Five Steps for Building a Culture of Cyber Resilience, provides a helpful overview of what to consider. If you already have a plan in place, that’s great—just remember, an outdated plan can be as detrimental as having no plan at all. Unless it’s actionable and provides clear direction for team members, your plan will not serve your organization should disaster strike.

To ensure your organization is ready for any disaster, review and update your plan annually based on changes in your business operations and the broader risk landscape. Aim to modify your plan each time your environment changes – for instance, when changes are made to hardware or network configurations.

Establish regular communication to ensure your disaster recovery team is up to date. Staff turnover can leave gaps in your team’s expertise. It’s essential to review and update team assignments regularly to reflect current staff. Distribute and maintain an updated organizational chart so you can easily identify replacements for team members who leave the company or move into new roles.

Establish a cross-functional team that represents all major business units and leadership. Additionally, cross-train team members so that each is capable of (and responsible for) filling multiple roles if needed. Redundancy is an invaluable asset in times of disaster and recovery.

Keep contact information for team members up to date and circulate it. One helpful practice is to have each department maintain a customer and employee contact list, identifying who they are responsible for contacting in an emergency. You might also provide each member with a laminated card containing contact information for all team members to ensure quick phone communication in a crisis.

Many organizations find it useful to have multiple ways of payment. Consider identifying alternative workarounds for placing orders or making payments. If necessary, once these channels are in place, your business will be able to continue functioning even under challenging circumstances should business channels get disrupted.

Testing Your Plan and Building Teamwork

Before finalizing or updating your disaster recovery plan, it’s essential to test it. Gather your updated disaster recovery team and run through a variety of scenarios. Tabletop exercises and real-time simulations provide a valuable opportunity for team members to collaborate, identify weaknesses, and refine their responses to potential crises. It’s best to draw from real-world scenarios and use current risks—such as the latest cyber threats or climate events—as the basis for these tests. This ensures that your plan remains practical and relevant.

In addition to testing the plan itself, plan annual or quarterly security awareness training for all employees that include updates to disaster recovery protocols. Familiarize on-site employees with evacuation routes, emergency contact points, and how to reach team members in case of a disaster. Remote workers may require different protocols, including printed instructions to follow if web-based communications are inoperable.

Redundancy and Due Diligence are Key to Mitigating Risk and Downtime

When selecting a cloud disaster recovery vendor, redundancy is crucial to ensuring business continuity. A reliable provider should offer geographically distributed data centers, real-time replication, and automated failover with live support to minimize downtime. Regular testing and due diligence help verify that your disaster recovery solution functions as expected, reducing the risk of data loss or prolonged outages and meeting Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) requirements. By leveraging a cloud-based disaster recovery solution, businesses can enhance resilience while optimizing costs, opposed to maintaining a fully integrated and redundant physical site.

Rely on Experts, Not Intuition

As businesses become more data-driven and interconnected, preparedness is now a vital part of protecting an organization’s value. Even the most experienced IT professionals can benefit from additional consulting to make sure your planning follows best practices and leverages the most current solutions.

A partner like RenovoData, experienced in serving businesses in every vertical, can deliver invaluable insights to help your IT team identify and address vulnerabilities to avoid costly downtime. Whether you need a complete cloud backup solution or ancillary services to augment an already robust resilience plan, RenovoData can help you meet your recovery goals.

Experience the difference that RenovoData can make for your organization with cloud backup, Server Recovery, DRaaS, and Hosted Solutions coupled with ongoing tactical recovery services. Schedule a call to discuss how we mitigate risks and downtime. Call 1.877.834.3684 or email us at info@renovodata.com.

RenovoData was featured in the 3PL Perspectives publication with this article by Chuck Cook: “The Race to Reduce Downtime“. 3PL Perspectives is a third-party logistics magazine provided by the Transportation Intermediaries Association.

An excerpt is below:

“Business continuity planning is essential in protecting your organization from disasters. Due to the time-sensitive nature of logistics operations, 3PLs cannot afford prolonged downtime. Businesses without a comprehensive plan lack the resilience to endure a substantial data loss incident, and often underestimate the time required to restore operations.”

You can read the complete article, “The Race to Reduce Downtime“.

Data is an invaluable business asset, and protecting against a data disaster has become an essential part of business continuity planning. Most companies are simply unable to withstand damages caused by a significant data loss event – and many do not realize that restoring operations can take a matter of weeks, not days, depending on the nature of the disaster and the backup & recovery solutions you have in place.

From the moment a data failure occurs, every minute of downtime is a threat to your organization’s future; it shakes the confidence of customers, employees, and investors. A rapid and reasoned response is your business’s best course forward, and without proper preparation, you could suffer irreparable harm.

It’s estimated that when small-to-medium businesses without a disaster recovery strategy or plan suffer malware attacks, 40-60% will go out of business as a direct result. With these high stakes of being unprepared, planning for rapid recovery is a key management responsibility.

Multiple components affect downtime and disaster recovery. The first essential step is to have cloud backups for your critical files. Subsequently, more advanced solutions such as Dedicated Recovery Servers and Data Protection onsite and offsite are crucial for business continuity and rapid recovery. An effective recovery strategy is equally important, as it provides a blueprint for how your business operations will move forward with minimal devastation.

Businesses that invest the time and energy to organize an emergency response plan have far fewer headaches – and potentially lost revenue – if a disaster occurs. Anticipating and preparing for the worst scenario will help protect essential operations and arm leadership with concrete steps necessary to stay calm and clear-headed.

Establish an in-depth plan for how to proceed if the worst should happen and catastrophic data loss occurs. How much downtime can your business afford? Assess honestly the disruption a data disaster would have on your operation. Then put together both an IT recovery plan – and furthermore, a business continuity plan – that reflects and accounts for the risk that your organization faces with downtime. Without these blueprints, the potential is great for significant revenue loss and irreparable damage to your business.

Your plan should balance both time and expense – including specific and detailed steps that need to be taken to restore operations quickly and completely. Making sure your Recovery solutions are aligned before a disaster is key to minimizing risk. For a full discussion of this important planning, download the eBook “Align Disaster Recovery Strategies and Solutions in Five Steps”.

It is axiomatic that every organization with an online presence needs a solid Disaster Recovery Plan. This blueprint shows you what to do and how to do it when hacker assaults, weather events, or other catastrophes threaten your data and systems.

Effective planning incorporates system-wide protection, thorough backup capabilities, and timely data recovery procedures. Human factors are equally important. These include:

• Clearly established rules regarding day-to-day handling and management of data
• Well-rehearsed action assignments for protection and recovery
• Ongoing training for everyone who has any role in those processes
• Periodic drills and testing to keep everyone on their toes and for tools and procedures to be deployment-ready always
• Rapid responses to constant changes in IT environments, requiring equivalent changes in protection, backup, and recovery methods, as well as training components

Other important though often-overlooked elements are the psychological reactions of the team members who must deal with disasters. When emergencies arise, people are thrust into fight-or-flight mode. At these times the speed, accuracy, and thoroughness of the team’s responses can mean the difference between a company’s survival and its destruction.

By their very nature, disasters strike when they are unexpected, so no matter how well-prepared your people are from a technical perspective, they will inevitably experience acute stress, which triggers the fight-or-flight response. This is completely natural and instinctive, so we can expect it to kick in whenever a threat appears. The fight-or-flight motivation is so deeply programmed in all of us that we sometimes experience it even when there is no danger at all. In cases where the menace is real and urgent, it can be overwhelming.

Choosing to fight or flee makes sense when lions are after us, but not when challenges demand informed, cool-headed, and rapid action. The best plans in the world will fail if the people who are charged with implementing them are emotional basket cases.

Fight-or-flight is essentially an automatic reaction of the sympathetic nervous system that prepares us to deal with extreme peril. We instinctively focus on our own survival, which can distract us from dealing with a disaster.

Nerves of steel and strong self-discipline certainly help, but when the heat is on, the fight-or-flight compulsion is inescapable. None of us is immune, nor do we know exactly how some will react, yet for any organization’s response to disaster to be effective, every team member must be a fully functioning participant.

Overcoming fight-or-flight reactions must be part of your Disaster Recovery Plan.

• Throughout the training process, remind all team members that disasters usually come as shocking surprises, and that there will not be time to contend with the emotional jolt.
• Everyone must understand that the moment a disaster is known to have occurred, the fight-or-flight impulse will interfere with problem-solving abilities, so remaining focused and on-task may be difficult.
• Let everyone know that the only way to overcome fight-or-flight is to follow established procedures to the letter.
• It is absolutely imperative that all team members be so well-practiced in disaster-recovery procedures that they can perform their assigned tasks even under intense stress.
• Disaster-response duties should be presented in clearly defined steps so that people see their responsibilities as a checklist rather than an amorphous collection of goals.
• Set up regular DR drills so that team members not only know what they have to do but, through practice, develop the automatic muscle memory needed to make each step easier and quicker.
• Make tabletop exercises part of the drill program. These are meetings in which team members discuss and analyze simulated disaster situations to spot potential flaws in the DR Plan. These exercises serve to sharpen participants’ understanding of their responsibilities.

Remember that effectively countering fight-or-flight responses is as essential as any element in your DR Plan.

RenovoData provides top-flight tools and techniques for disaster recovery as well as expertise in handling threats to data and systems. We can help prepare your team for attacks and other crises, enabling them to overcome problems and return to normal productivity as quickly and painlessly as possible.

The need for effective disaster recovery planning is a crucial segment of today’s IT security practices.

There are many potential causes for disasters, with cyber-attacks being the most prevalent. Every organization with an online presence is vulnerable to this kind of criminal activity and the numbers tell a grim story. Gartner research found that more than 80% of organizations have been successfully attacked, more than half have experienced four or more such events, and just under 40% have had five or more. Small businesses are especially susceptible.

Cyber threats are only one category of disasters. Other types are less frequent but can inflict as much or more devastation. New threats appear continually and every company’s IT setup evolves over time, so even the best recovery plans need frequent and regularly scheduled reevaluation.

The business world is more IT-sophisticated than ever, and companies expect the organizations with which they interact to keep up with the times. With the perpetual advancement of IT tools, trends, and techniques, businesses are increasingly pressed to deliver goods and services quickly.

So, unless you are on top of every aspect of your IT recovery processes and have created and continued to maintain a plan to support them, a refresher may be in order.

Why IT recovery plans matter

• Disasters happen.
• Shutdowns are expensive. No matter why or how your IT functions freeze up, high downtime costs are always possible, from data loss to diminished IT capabilities to a damaged reputation.
• Your disaster affects your customers and vendors. If orders go unfilled, communications become disrupted, or your performance is impaired, your most important contacts can be seriously harmed, without warning. If your system is hacked, the infection can spread to every entity to whom you are connected.
• Regulators can require IT recovery plans.
• To an increasing extent, insurance coverage can demand demonstrable IT recovery capabilities.

Disaster takes many forms

As mentioned, the most prominent of such challenges are cyber-attacks, which grow in number as new IT developments arise. New technological advances often carry new risks.

Similarly, single points of failure in a company’s security armor allow even the strongest defenses to be penetrated. A good plan identifies those vulnerabilities and takes steps to eliminate them. In addition, an emergency recovery plan clearly delineates procedures and responsibilities so that everyone knows where everything is, what to do in any emergency, and who is responsible for what. This way, the entire organization is on the same page throughout the disaster recovery process.

Some of the most easily overlooked malware entry pathways are created by the small devices and programs that users casually attach to systems, often without the knowledge or approval of IT staff. Mobile devices can create endpoints vulnerable to attack, and users may be unaware that their devices are not secure by default. As a Forsythe Solutions Group, Inc. article entitled Mobile Device Security in the Workplace: 6 Key Risks & Challenge points out, “With the right (inexpensive) equipment, hackers can gain access to a nearby mobile device in less than 30 seconds and either mirror the device and see everything on it, or install malware that will enable them to siphon data from it at their leisure.”

In addition, innovations like digital transformation, as much of an advance as they may be, can add to problems of this kind by introducing potential penetration points. Another risk is data leaks. Such problems require close attention and an understanding of how to prevent them. Besides cyber-attacks, other significant threats are posed by completely different causes. These are generally hard to anticipate.

Natural disasters include hurricanes, earthquakes, and, increasingly, floods. Others are manmade, such as highway and railway accidents, utility failures, and chemical and oil spills. Of course, fires can be caused by natural events or human activity.

At the most extreme end of a disaster, possibilities are events that make it impossible for work to continue at your usual location. The only solutions to such disasters are offsite capabilities that enable you to restart operations rapidly. This can be achieved by exploiting the possibilities of cloud storage and working with a trusted vendor to set up a functioning alternate physical site.

Among potential risks, day-to-day operator error is in a class by itself. Employee mischief is always possible, but a person need not be disloyal or incompetent to cause major damage by making a small mistake. The most effective safeguards against both sabotage and human error are good communication, employee education, and training.

Planning the plan

Begin by thinking about where your company is now. Do you have IT recovery processes in place? Are those processes the result of careful planning? How well do your tools and solutions fit your company? Is each component the best choice for its function? Does each meet the needs of your current business model and IT environment?

Calculate your costs of downtime and review the fundamentals that every recovery plan should contain. Then look at potential threats to identify the key steps in developing and refining your plan. Determine the level of detail a plan requires, who should be responsible for what, and a schedule for ongoing testing of the plan. We cannot overemphasize this last point.

The tools and solutions you select need not to be the most complex, expensive, or feature-rich, but they should be the right choices for your company. Be prepared to consider fresh options and alternative possibilities.

Always keep in mind that the best plan and the best implementation with the best tools and solutions can become outdated and vulnerable with a single change to the system, even a minor one. The same is true for ongoing developments in the wider IT world, so stay abreast of new products and conditions that might have an impact on your disaster recovery capabilities. Once again, remember to reexamine your plans in deep detail on a frequent, regularly scheduled basis.

Planning for IT recovery is a complex endeavor that requires a serious time commitment, highly focused attention, investment, and most importantly, expertise. That’s what RenovoData can provide, throughout the whole IT recovery planning process.

The article provides expert-level detail on guiding 3PL and Trucking Companies through the importance of having a solid plan and helping them to prepare for a disaster. Read more….

Excerpt:

Creating and implementing an effective disaster recovery plan takes time, effort and buy-in by everyone in the organization. Every so often, employees will be required to bring their walk to a halt, and as you well know, interruptions of this kind are especially problematic in the fast-moving 3PL and trucking company environment… The cost of disasters can be measured by the amount of downtime you incur, so begin your disaster recovery planning by determining how much you can withstand. To do so, you must add up how much loss of each main function will be over a given period. The total for your company could be seconds or days, with 3PL and trucking companies requiring high speed…

 

Data disaster comes in many forms, from hurricanes to ransomware attacks, and security is always a major issue. But no matter the source of the problem, recovery will be faster, easier, cheaper and less traumatic with a solid disaster recovery plan in place. So will your existing plan be effective in the event of a disaster? If it is poorly planned, is not updated to cover ongoing changes, or is not regularly and rigorously tested, the answer is no.

These basic steps will get you to yes.

Use it or lose it.

The best plan ever devised is useless if it sits gathering dust on a shelf. Once you have a good plan, revisit it on a regular schedule and keep improving it so it is ready to implement when the time comes.

Calculate how much downtime you can handle.

Effective planning begins with this baseline metric. To determine how long you can afford to be down, you must identify how much it costs for key elements to be idle over a period of time. This can range from seconds to days, depending on the size and type of the business. That is why disaster recovery is different for every business.

Establish a recovery point objective (RPO) and a recovery time objective (RTO) for each application. Divide your applications into tiers, with Tier 1 being those that should be restored as rapidly as possible. Tier 2 apps are important but not as urgent, and can be put on hold for some hours. Tier 3 apps can wait for a few days if necessary. Some apps will become more or less important, thus changing tiers.

While systems are down, the cost meter keeps running, and these must all be part of your calculations:

• Ordinary business costs – From salaries to physical plant and utilities to subscriptions and dues to travel expenses, money keeps going out at the same speed, even if the income machine is frozen.
• Loss of data – Downtime corrupts and destroys data, which causes widespread and often unanticipated damage to present and future operations. Worse yet, your disaster can harm your customers’ data.
• Reputation suffers – If operations stay down for long, public perception can be at risk. If downtime persists, you will start to lose customers.
• Recovery has its price – Getting back to normal can be expensive, but a good recovery plan keeps costs down.

Inventory your systems and applications.

Include every hardware and software item, because any or all of them could be involved in a disaster. Put the inventory into a regularly updated spreadsheet or table and make it widely available at all times.

Along with your inventory records, all vendor-supplied product data (specifications, manuals, contracts, etc.), should be kept on file, and employees should become familiar with these documents. Maintain relationships with vendors so that if and when you need their help, they will know you and your system and you will know them.

• Also include articles, commentaries, and reviews regarding your hardware and software products.
• Review the document every quarter for completeness and accuracy.

Understand your data.

Be aware that data comes in many categories. Factors include:

• The importance of the data to business operations and service to your customers
• The ease or difficulty of replacing specific data
• The sensitivity and confidentiality of the data

During the planning process, take care to ensure the safest and most careful handling of sensitive data.

Assign everyone a role in disaster recovery.

This conveys the importance and nature of the process while promoting fast and thorough recovery. Decide who does what, who steps in if a backup is needed, and who takes up the slack if key contributors are absent.

Devise a process for deciding if a disaster is taking place and make specific individuals responsible for the decision. Distribute responsibilities as if you were organizing a new company, with appropriate hierarchies and accountabilities.

Include key vendors in the plan and keep them in the loop. Set a procedure for notifying all concerned parties as soon as a disaster strikes.

Schedule recovery drills. Even a minor file recovery test can reveal weaknesses to remediate before a disaster occurs.

Make communication a priority at every level.

Every employee needs to be informed as soon as a disaster is detected, and a formal communications system – in both electronic and paper form – should be at the ready. Keep vendors and customers informed as well. With internal email and telephone services at risk, alternate communications should be employed, and everyone needs to know when and how to switch to safe platforms.

As soon as a disaster occurs, issue a corporate statement on company websites and social media. Most of this statement can be prepared in advance, ready for specifics to be filled in. Be truthful about the problem and how it will be solved. Resist the impulse to cover up or minimize the event, and do not promise a better outcome than you are likely to deliver. Release updates of your progress, and if events undermine an announced recovery response, get the news out ahead of the grapevine.

Check your SLAs.

Make sure that service level agreements with vendors include disaster contingencies. If the companies are in any way involved in a disaster, they should be contractually obligated to begin working on problems within a specified time. In some cases, it is possible to reach a binding agreement regarding how long it would take to resolve problems.

Plan your escape.

When disaster strikes, you may need to move operations to a safe site, with the right kind of workspace in addition to the necessary systems, equipment, and communications. People must be able to get to the place, walk in, sit down and get to work quickly. Everyone should know what to do and how to do it. Training and drills reduce surprise and confusion.

In the event of an area-wide catastrophe such as an extreme weather event, people should be able to telework productively enough to discharge their most important duties.

Test thoroughly and often.

When disaster strikes, the best recovery plan can be bedeviled by small failures (an absent employee, an Internet glitch, an unfamiliar new app). Quarterly testing is your best safeguard. Never forget that your testing processes must support your RTO and RPO goals. Learn more about disaster planning.
To keep their emergency response performance sharp, everyone who interacts with the system should be tested from time to time. Remember that failing a test is not bad, since it prompts improvement and reduces risk. However, failure to test is.

The cost of server downtime can be overwhelming. To estimate just how expensive it could be for your business, take a moment to calculate your potential losses. You’ve probably taken steps to guard against major hardware failure, but if you’re relying solely on a data backup solution to recover your server, you might be setting yourself up for future problems.

Although file-based backup solutions can go a long way in helping to recover your data and OS files, issues can occur in many ways, such as the introduction of new hardware OS versions or changes in layout.  This is similar to using a bargain-bin crescent wrench when you really need a deep well socket and ratchet!  Sure, the crescent is cheaper and can usually get the job done, but it might not do the job to your satisfaction when you need it most.

Now’s the time to review your critical apps and servers, and look at the tools you now rely on for recovery. You should determine whether those tools will do the job.

Select the Right Tools

The need to select the right components for every aspect of your backup and recovery processes can’t be overstated, and that means ensuring that all those components are the best choices for your servers and workstations through every stage of their development. With that in mind, let’s focus on one critical area: how to protect servers against the inevitable risks that arise as a result of normal system evolution.

• The most powerful item in any toolbox is an expertly designed plan. An important but easily overlooked planning element is a method by which such changes are given prompt attention as they are introduced and are examined for the effects they may have on security.
• Custom Cloud Backup solutions can effectively deter such problems. The highly flexible Hybrid Cloud combines a company’s own infrastructure with a Cloud system to protect legacy elements, even those outsourced elsewhere.
• Our Local Disk Backup capabilities effectively backstop vulnerabilities of this kind, especially Backup in a Box, which provides offsite backup with local storage options. Your servers may be open to this kind of failure, but ours are not.
• The Renovo Recovery Server goes even beyond the Backup in a Box solution, providing the strongest protection for servers. Pristine local copies of backup files, databases and server images safely stored, and you can use server clones until your hardware is restored or replaced. The result is rapid recovery from hardware failure with dramatically reduced downtime.

These are just a few ways we safeguard our customers’ constantly evolving primary hardware. We’re always available to help analyze and assess your current recovery setup, so contact us.