What is a right-sized disaster recovery plan?
Close the gap between your DR capabilities and service continuity requirements.
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Unlock This BlueprintYour Challenge
- What is a right-sized disaster recovery plan? It's a concise and effective plan to support IT service continuity.
- Any time a natural disaster or major
IT outage occurs, it increases executive awareness and internal pressure to
create a disaster recovery plan (DRP), a specific set of requirements that
allow an organization to remain effective in the event of an outage, tailored
to an organization’s specific needs.
- Traditional DRP templates are onerous and result in a lengthy, dense plan that might satisfy auditors but will not be effective in a crisis.
- The myth that a DRP is only for major disasters leaves organizations vulnerable to more common incidents.
- The growing use of outsourced infrastructure services has increased reliance on vendors to meet recovery timeline objectives.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- At its core, disaster recovery (DR) is about ensuring service continuity. Create a plan that can be leveraged for both isolated and catastrophic events.
- Remember Murphy’s Law. Failure happens. Focus on improving overall resiliency and recovery, rather than basing DR on risk probability analysis.
- Cost-effective DR and service continuity starts with identifying what is truly mission critical so you can focus resources accordingly. Not all services require fast failover.
Impact and Result
- Define appropriate objectives for service downtime and data loss based on business impact.
- Document an incident response plan that captures all of the steps from event detection to data center recovery.
- Create a DR roadmap to close gaps between current DR capabilities and recovery objectives.
Member Testimonials
After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.
9.6/10
Overall Impact
$66,831
Average $ Saved
28
Average Days Saved
Client
Experience
Impact
$ Saved
Days Saved
Texas Trust Credit Union
Guided Implementation
10/10
$32,195
20
I really appreciate Scott’s experience and expertise on this subject. He made it clear and easy to understand.
City of Palm Beach Gardens
Workshop
10/10
$34,250
20
Time consuming for a large portion of staff however will pay off with saving time for all employees in the event of a disaster.
National Arts Centre Canada
Guided Implementation
10/10
$50,000
20
Working with Frank was wonderful, he was knowledgeable, patient and really took his time to walk us through the fundamentals without judgement. It ... Read More
State of New Mexico Early Childhood & Care Department
Guided Implementation
9/10
$13,700
20
Organization of materials that can be tailored to organization size and maturity and can be approached iteratively. Great callouts differentiating... Read More
County of Stafford
Workshop
10/10
$137K
90
Our workshop facilitator, Venkat, was extremely knowledgeable! He added significant value to our discussions and provided us with great recommendat... Read More
Eastern Michigan University
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
N/A
Our consultant was wonderful. He was very knowledgeable.
Stream Realty Partners, L.P.
Guided Implementation
9/10
$34,250
10
Lower Hudson Regional Information Center
Workshop
10/10
N/A
20
Venkat proved to be an exceptional consultant for our team. He came well-prepared and rapidly grasped the subtleties of our organization, adapting ... Read More
Solano County, CA
Workshop
10/10
$68,500
20
The workshop was fantastic. It empowered us to establish a robust BIA process that our organization was lacking. I now have the tools to develop a ... Read More
Department of Agriculture Kentucky
Guided Implementation
8/10
N/A
2
The risk assessment techniques were useful in gauging the impact of various scenarios, and the official engagement provided persuasion for other te... Read More
Conseil Scolaire Catholique MonAvenir
Guided Implementation
9/10
$25,000
38
The experience was excellent overall. Darin was very knowledgable and really did a great job of guiding us through the process. We really enjoyed t... Read More
Engie North America INC
Workshop
10/10
$137K
20
Joe Riley was an excellent resource with vast experience and expertise to guide Engie thru the process of identifying Gaps and documenting existing... Read More
Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs
Guided Implementation
9/10
N/A
100
It was great working with Scott Houle. He is knowledgeable and patient and made sure that I had all the information necessary to tackle something a... Read More
Firstmac Limited
Guided Implementation
10/10
$1,820
2
Support in classification and risk ranking of our BCP Risks.
Monroe #1 BOCES
Workshop
7/10
N/A
N/A
Facilitator was outstanding and flexible to our needs. As our work was focused on developing a roadmap for a DRP replacement, estimating time and ... Read More
Carver County, MN
Guided Implementation
9/10
$13,712
7
Socan
Workshop
10/10
$100K
10
We found the domain knowledge of the facilitator to be very good which helped us to ask and answer the right questions based on our environment and... Read More
Coachella Valley Water District
Workshop
10/10
$68,500
20
There are no issues or concerns to report. Sumit has proven to be an exceptional consultant, demonstrating a deep familiarity with the specific typ... Read More
First Ontario Credit Union Ltd.
Guided Implementation
10/10
$50,000
20
Darin's wealth of knowledge in the space has been fantastic. It has allowed us to bring in the correct stake holders to understand the needs of the... Read More
Woodbine Entertainment Group
Workshop
8/10
$10,000
20
Very difficult to meet ITRG's back-to-back scheduling requirement for these sessions. Excellent discussions facilitated by Venkat across lines o... Read More
State of Kentucky - Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
Workshop
10/10
$68,500
50
Venkat was a great facilitator and had clearly planned the days well and did preliminary work each night so we would have a very valuable day of wo... Read More
Small Enterprise Finance Agency
Guided Implementation
9/10
$13,700
20
Templates and advise was very useful
MyPath, Inc.
Guided Implementation
10/10
$137K
120
Frank brings excellent experience to the table in relation to our DR and BC Workshops and discussions. We are fortunate to have him facilitating fo... Read More
Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority
Guided Implementation
8/10
$5,000
5
Very knowledgeable help and good insights...
Georgia Department of Banking and Finance
Guided Implementation
10/10
$13,700
20
Kansas Public Employees Retirement System
Guided Implementation
10/10
$34,250
20
Best part is being able to ask questions on any parts that I don't understand. No worst part.
County of Montgomery
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
20
Andrew is an awesome analyst and advisor. He was able to keep us on track and explain everything in detail as we worked through the program. It was... Read More
Sirtex Medical US Holdings, Inc.
Guided Implementation
10/10
$129K
20
The value provided by Infotech is threefold. Firstly, there's the research; clear, comprehensive and ready to share, making me look like a rock sta... Read More
Santa Fe Community College
Guided Implementation
9/10
$1,039
23
St. Petersburg College
Guided Implementation
10/10
$123K
47
Frank was amazing to work with, collaborate on ideas and create a framework for success.