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Disaster Recovery and Fault Tolerance Consulting
Disaster Recovery and Fault Tolerance Consulting
Disaster Recovery and Fault Tolerance Consulting
Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Solutions Consulting
For businesses of any size, prolonged inability to operate is costly and potentially fatal. Disaster recovery and business continuity planning is a practice area that combines business logistics and information technology to help organizations prepare for events that could threaten their ability to function.
Business disruption can have a wide variety of causes including natural or man-made disasters, pandemics, malicious IT attacks, hardware failure, software bugs, planned maintenance, or human error. High-level business continuity planning encompasses business logistics that go well beyond information technology and addresses issues such as emergency notification systems, alternate office space and transportation, and regulatory reporting. Disaster recovery typically focuses on IT issues such as trying to eliminate single-point network failures, providing a temporary "subsistence-level" computing environment, and expediting the recovery process.
All large enterprises have regularly updated strategies and technologies in place designed to allow them to function at some level in case of a catastrophe. For smaller businesses, however, serious disaster recovery and continuity planning has been too expensive to implement and too complex to manage. But things have changed. New technologies and services has made DR/BC solutions affordable and effective. Decision Consultants can show you how.
Decision Consultants’ DR/BC consultants, Microsoft-certified IT experts, and Cisco certified network engineers have in-depth experience helping small businesses reduce network downtime by offering affordable consulting support for business continuity planning, high-availability network infrastructure design, backup and restore systems, and non-disruptive maintenance.
Decision Consultants’ business continuity consultants can help you develop, implement, and validate a sensible business continuity plan that aligns with your business needs and IT budget. Decision Consultants’ disaster recovery specialists can assist you to plan, deploy, and support fault-tolerant technologies such as redundant Internet connectivity, virtualization, fail-over clustering, network load balancing, continual online backup, and multi-location data centers. Decision Consultants’ system management engineers can help you minimize or eliminate network downtime associated with routine maintenance.
Decision Consultants offers high-level online consulting for business continuity planning, testing, and training to help you prepare for potential disasters, minimize downtime for your most critical IT operations, avoid data loss, and comply with examiners' letters and agency requirements. Decision Consultants’ business continuity experts can work closely with your management and IT support staff to:
An exciting option for seamless, low-cost disaster recovery is to use Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization software, included free with Windows Server 2008, and combine it with Microsoft’s System Center Data Protection Manager 2010. This makes it easy to replicate your entire IT server infrastructure at a branch office or remote data center. The technology's ability to limit data loss to at most the last 15 minutes of IT transactions is revolutionary and the software is well within the budgets of most businesses. Add a well designed VoIP telecommunications infrastructure to keep the phones humming and you are well on your way to a robust disaster recovery and business continuity solution of a quality that until recently has been reserved for large enterprises.
To help you create your own DR/BC solution, Decision Consultants offers consulting and support for a broad range of technologies from leading vendors. Product-specific services provided by Decision Consultants to help you implement your disaster recovery solution include:
Decision Consultants can help small and medium sized businesses create a fault-tolerant network environment with fast recovery capability by providing expertise in these critical practice areas:
Decision Consultants’ Cisco-certified network professionals can help you create an economical, fault tolerant Internet architecture that can achieve 24x7 Internet access through a variety of high-availability Internet connectivity technologies including fault tolerant and redundant service. Decision Consultants offers CCIE professionals to show you how to apply the most advanced techniques for fault tolerant Internet access to build an affordable, completely redundant Internet network with automatic failover and other features to create non-stop Internet connections. To read more, visit Fault Tolerant Internet Connectivity.
Virtualization is central to any up-to-date disaster recovery solution. Virtual servers can be provisioned, re-purposed, copied, and restored quickly and easily, offering a level of flexibility for achieving high-availability impossible to match with physical servers. Decision Consultants can help you design and implement a virtualized environment powered by Microsoft Windows Hyper-V, which incorporates advanced business continuity features that include transparent backup and live migration. Hyper-V can eliminate much of the time required for scheduled maintenance, switching to hot backup sites, and restoring business-critical functions. For more information, visit Windows Hyper-V Consulting Support.
The server cluster technology built into the high-end editions of MS Windows Server 2008 is radically redesigned to simplify the installation, configuration, and maintenance of clusters that provide greater levels of network availability, security, efficiency, and versatility. New or improved capabilities include cluster verification, revamped setup and deployment, unified cluster management, redesigned cluster architecture for maximum availability, better protection and quorum models, minimization of failure points, greater disk and memory capacity, and improvements for multi-site clusters. To read more, go to Windows Server 2008 Clustering Support.
ecision Consultants provides high availability load balancing consulting covering system load balancing, load balanced applications, network infrastructure routing, and content dispatching products. Non-stop load balancing products for which Decision Consultants can provide consulting expertise include Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Access Suite and Presentation Server, Cisco CSS, Cisco Content Engine and others. To learn more, see Load Balancing for High Availability.
Decision Consultants’ inter-site connection professionals can help small organizations create non-stop inter-site connectivity solutions through fully redundant networks featuring automatic failover. Decision Consultants’ Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers can plan and deploy ultra-reliable Inter-office networks based on fault tolerant EIGRP routers or non-stop OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Decision Consultants can demonstrate how redundant connectivity and automatic fail-over can provide affordable 24x7 interoffice networking. To find out more, see High Availability InterOffice Connectivity Solutions.
Decision Consultants’ expert System Center Data Protection Manager engineers can help you to create an effective business continuity plan, design a cost-effective non-stop IT infrastructure, deploy a Microsoft DPM-based backup and restore system, thoroughly test your system, train your IT staff or regular service providers how to manage DPM, or handle complete IT outsourcing services including remote hosting of Microsoft DPM servers in Decision Consultants’ secure data center facility. To read more, see Data Protection Manager consulting.
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) credential program certifies an IT consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain IS controls to reduce network risk. Decision Consultants can provide the expertise of a certified consultant to help you develop and carry out a business continuity plan that adheres to leading practices promoted by CRISC and tailored to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines.
Because Decision Consultants is a Microsoft Gold Business Partner and offers professional application consulting for a wide range of small business software programs, Decision Consultants can help customers to find comprehensive IT solutions that maximize the productivity of your IT network. As a registered business partner of Cisco, Decision Consultants can provide the expertise of certified consultants and specialists with expertise in designing, configuring and supporting networking environments built on Cisco Systems products. The breadth of Decision Consultants’ technical experience and Decision Consultants’ appreciation for the needs of small businesses make Decision Consultants the ideal resource for building and maintaining an affordable, dependable network.
In order to contact Decision Consultants about technical assistance for non-stop infrastructure, call (866) 666-7731 or send email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it