An IT disaster recovery plan is critical to business continuity - a recent Gartner Group study reports that 40 percent of businesses that lose their data in a disaster go out of business within 5 years. In the event of a disaster, your company’s survival depends on the ability to replicate your IT systems and data. When your bottom line depends on uptime, continuous data protection and application availability are absolute essentials.
IT Disaster Recovery Principles
A recovery time objective (RTO) refers to the maximum length of time that a system can be down after a failure or disaster occurs before the company is negatively impacted by the downtime.
A recovery point objective (RPO) specifices a point in time that data must be recovered and backed up. The RPO determines the minimum frequency and at which intervals backups need to occur, whether every hour or every 5 minutes.
Offsite Backup
Online Tech delivers a comprehensive range of IT disaster recovery solutions to meet your budget and recovery time objectives (RTO), starting with offsite backup as the baseline for data protection. Whether you’re using colocation, managed servers, or cloud computing, you can back up your data offsite to another Online Tech data center for a simple monthly fee.
Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
Disaster recovery options open up for our cloud computing clients. Our managed cloud and private cloud clients can replicate their entire environment to a disaster recovery cloud with no special configuration or programming with our comprehensive disaster recovery solution, DR Now! DR Now! delivers 4 hour recovery times starting at $99 per server per month.
Benefits of Cloud-based Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery in the cloud is the latest and most reliable solution that also happens to cost less than half of the production environment. It’s considered more reliable because the entire hosted cloud (including servers, software, network configuration and security) are replicated to an offsite disaster recovery cloud.
Plus, it’s faster – recovering your servers, apps and data into a cold site environment is entirely replaced by only a few clicks to spin up the replicated servers. Online Tech’s disaster recovery cloud solution (DR Now!) has a warranted 4 hour recovery time objective, specifying the worst case availability in case of a disaster. Our SAS 70, SSAE 16 (SOC 1) and SOC 2 audited data centers prove we follow standardized processes to cut down on human error and power, network, hardware and software failure.
SAN-to-SAN Replication
Our most advanced and comprehensive disaster recovery option allows our private cloud clients to leverage our SAN-to-SAN replication for even faster recovery times and a solution that can failback gracefully to production once the disaster event is over.
Our Advantage
Online Tech is your ideal IT disaster recovery data center partner with our Michigan data centers uniquely situated 53 miles apart, directly connected with Gigabit fiber, and located on two separate power grids.
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