IT Disaster Recovery Planning
We have considerable experience in assisting organisations with both the business and technical challenges associated with IT Disaster Recovery Planning.
What do we mean by business challenges associated with IT DR planning?
One of the common challenges is bridging the gaps between the ‘business' and ‘IT'. Through carrying out Risk Assessment and Business Impact Analysis it is easy to help the business ensure it is able to articulate its recovery priorities and timescales.
In this way, the IT Department can then invest in meeting what the business actually needs rather than either through ignorance, simply recovering everything as quickly as possible (this is normally a large and unnecessary expense) or worse still, doing nothing because the business's requirements aren't known.
At Beeches Consulting our impartiality and lack of allegiance to any technology or solution providers ensures that we are able to assist with recommending only what is actually needed by the organisation. We call this alignment of business continuity requirements with IT Disaster Recovery Capabilities: sounds simple but it's a surprisingly common area of contention often with dangerous assumptions around existing capabilities within organisations.
From a technical perspective we are able to assist with reviewing existing Disaster Recovery arrangements, reviewing existing technology capabilities and analysing / proposing solutions which align to the business recovery requirements. We are also able to offer expertise in all aspects of solution & requirements definition, procurement, implementation, testing and actual documentation of the IT Disaster Recovery plans.
Our IT Disaster Recovery Services Include:
Analysis
- Documenting scope of IT Services (Internal, external, 3rd parties etc)
- Review of support and 3rd party SLA
- Confirming IT DRP scope and alignment to RTO / RPO
- Identify and confirm full HW / SW inventory
- Documenting Business IT DR requirements (RPO/RTO etc)
- Documenting IT DRP requirements & prepare outline approach for DRP
- Securing stakeholder agreement for DRP
- Development of project plan / timeline
Development of IT DRP
- Assist / lead as required with the procurement of any identified solutions
- Assist / lead as required with the re-write / review of any existing support agreements
- Documenting IT DRP
Exercise and Review
- Development of IT DRP exercise scenario (test)
- Review scenario with IT Director and IT Team
- Secure commitment and participation from users
- Execute IT DR scenario
- Documenting outcomes and updating IT DRP
