Disaster Recovery Technical Readiness Assessment

Disaster Recovery
Technical Readiness Assessment
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​Assessment/ Design/ Gap Analysis

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​Disaster Recovery 'implementations' are perceived to be a costly exercise, with little or no return. 

The 'DR' equipment and DR site sits in a lights out and unused mode? Right?

CD-DataHouse Limited provides deep level Disaster Recovery expertise to undertake an assessment of:

  • Your existing Production Storage Systems
  • Your Applications
  • Application Usage patterns
  • Batch and Transactional I/O utilisation
  • Peak Hourly, Daily, Weekly and Monthly usage of data and Applications

We then discuss your:

  • RPO - Recovery Point Objectives - ie How much data can be lost
  • RTO - Recovery Time Objectives - ie How soon do your Applications need to be online

​From here, a map of RPO and RTO by Application, by Department/User type and other parameters can be developed.

Disaster Recovery 'implementations' are perceived to be a costly exercise, with little or no return. The 'DR' equipment and DR site sits in a lights out and unused mode? Right? CD-DataHouse Limited provides deep level Disaster Recovery expertise to undertake an assessment of:
    Your existing Production Storage Systems
    Your Applications
    Application Usage patterns
    Batch and Transactional I/O utilisation
    Peak Hourly, Daily, Weekly and Monthly usage of data and Applications
We then discuss your:
    RPO
        Recovery Point Objectives - ie How much data can be lost
    RTO
        Recovery Time Objectives - ie How soon do your Applications need to be online
drporgmarquee1 From here, a map of RPO and RTO by Application, by Department/User type and other parameters can be developed. This allows a full assessment of:
    What is 'possible' in the context of your current Storage, Tape, Data and Network (WAN) infrastructure
    What small additions could be made that could provide significant DR leverage
    How your business would obtain the greatest level of return for the least investment
We then highlight how other CD-DataHouse clients use their DR sites as 'active' data centres, where the remote data and systems have been used for activities such as development, management reporting, etc. At the same time we will also outline a Full Roadmap for extended DR capabilities, along with indicative budgetary pricing, that will allow you to understand the Returns and Investment strategies you might follow over an 18-24 month period.

This allows a full assessment of:

  • What is 'possible' in the context of your current Storage, Tape, Data and Network (WAN) infrastructure
  • What small additions could be made that could provide significant DR leverage
  • How your business would obtain the greatest level of return for the least investment

We highlight how other CD-DataHouse clients use their DR sites as 'active' data centres, where the remote data and systems are used for activities such as development, management reporting, etc.

​A Roadmap for extended DR capabilities will be created, with budgetary pricing, allowing you to understand the Returns and Investment strategies that might follow over an 18-24 month period.

services process CD-DataHouse offers a range of services with a few simple aims:
    De-Risk your Storage Analysis and Storage Purchases
    Ensure Purchases are implemented into Production expediently and not risk becoming shelf-ware
    To ensure you invest in just what you need, rather than over spend
    To ensure your investments provide a roadmap for future business growth and technical scalability
    To ensure that appropriate knowledge is transferred to our client so they maximise their business and technical utilisation of the Storage Systems they have invested in
derisk Assessment is the first step and here we aim to understand the relationship between users, applications, data, networks and then the impact on your storage subsystems. Gap Analysis: What state are the current systems in, and could minor improvements result in significantly leveraged operational capability. Or not so Simply stated:
    Why is vendor X pushing me to upgrade
    Are there other choices I'm not aware of?
Design: Outline and consideration of varying permutations and options to develop an architecture and 'fill the blanks' with varying technology options. Implementation: Here clients may choose to implement themselves, and often this is the ideal outcome for all parties involved. CD-DataHouse recommends an 80:20 rule to implementation, where our expertise is called in for the 'difficult' aspects of an implementation - and in some cases we are able to bill in quarter or half day blocks for such work. One of the key implementation activities is knowledge transfer - either before the implementation, during and/or after. As we see dozens of client per year, we collect a significant amount of 'empirical' experience, that gives us an ' insight' into certain projects. Projects by their nature have patterns that are common to all organisations, and we strive to help overcome some of the more common issues. If you would like to arrange an initial discussion around your Storage and Data protection requirements, please messbox contact us.