Business Continuance
Any organization that depends on information technology to conduct its business is vulnerable to the kinds of disruptions that are common to that technology, whether these are disk crashes on single servers, or a system-wide network failure, the impact to your business is real and can be long lasting. It is a challenge to ensure continuous access to data and applications regardless of system failures, guarantee the day-to-day integrity of data, and be able to upgrade your systems without incurring downtime.
OnX consultants work with you to identify and mitigate potential service disruptions in the following areas:
- device availability - power supplies, I/O, RAID storage;
- network, data and server availability
- facilities availability
- site availability - disaster recovery.
The challenge in operating a business is to balance the cost of the required infrastructure and its safeguards with the actual capacity, availability and security your business needs. OnX adopts a modular approach to business continuance, offering levels of protection which increase in relation to the risk identified in your system. We identify three levels:
Level 1
- N+1 redundant hot swap components
- UPS power and/or diesel generators
- redundant ISP links
- RAID data protection
- redundant data access paths
- redundant network access
- data backup to tape
Level 2
- clustered servers
- online upgrades
- online (zero time) backup
- disk-based backups
- cold or warm site recovery capability (tape-based recovery)
Level 3
- data replication to a hot site
- automated site fail-over process
- recovery to the transaction level
Our consultants work with you to develop a risk assessment plan suited to your business, and then recommend the architecture that best meets both your requirements for cost-control and system availability.