• You're wondering how to maintain your company's critical functions should a major outage or disaster hit (fire, flood, human error);
• The reliability and securing of data availability and your desktop environment is critical for your company;
• Your traditional recovery solution takes much too long to recover and restore data;
• The amount of data to be recovered has increased recovery complexity and time;
• Your IT recovery objectives have not been adapted to your business plan;
• The preparation of a recovery exercise seems much too work-intensive for your organization;

In a world where a business must respond to its clientele and suppliers in real time, the prospect of taking 48 to 72 hours to resume activities with a 24-hour loss of data is becoming increasingly unacceptable. Hardware and software providers have made significant improvements to their products in order to make the recovery process more efficient and automated, thus reducing the risk of errors and problems should your operations be disrupted. Older recovery techniques present multiple risks because of the manual operations they require.

Technology solutions now exist that are accessible to all types of environments and that allow for local or international data replication. This replication can be synchronized or not, be it for operating systems, applications, virtualization layers, or disks.

Recovery can be conducted via a high-performance bandwidth such as dark fibre or via a simple high speed Internet link. These solutions provide all of the sought-after improvements, both in terms of resumption time and automation. They substantially reduce data loss compared to the traditional recovery method using magnetic tape.

The NOVIPRO team is capable of conducting an audit of your technological environment in order to identify its weaknesses and can implement any components missing from your existing solutions. Most notably, our experts can:

• Design, develop and implement technology recovery solutions;
• Create recovery architecture, including numerous components, such as IBM Metro Mirror, IBM Global Mirror, Oracle RAC and/or Data Guard, a storage area network (SAN), DoubleTake, or storage virtualization (IBM SVC), to name just a few;
• Conduct proofs of concept;
• Automate repetitive tasks, thus reducing human error and effort;
• Help prepare exercises and apply corrective actions;
• Maintain the evolution of plans, and manage change.

Hardware: Storage Area Network (SAN), optimal storage solution combinaisons (disks and tapes)...

Software: Archiving & backup solutions (IBM Total Storage Manager - TSM), replication and disaster recovery (Double-Take), Oracle RAC, VMWare DRS...

• Protect your business from potential losses if your operations come to a standstill;
• Secure your data, and assure its availability;
• Simplify your technology recovery processes;
• Assure your level of service;
• Minimize the effort associated with recovery activities, and shorten the recovery period;
• Align technology recovery to your business plan;
• Maximize the money invested and the reliability of your infrastructure.

For more information, please contact us: Customer Relations