A practical approach to protecting your organization is to assume that if something can go wrong, it probably will.

Redundancy is key to preventing complete system failure.

We at OmniComp understand this and help you prepare.

Option for contingency planning
Standby Computers: You can create standby computer systems and locate them in air-conditioned computer rooms in trailers. The equipment can be delivered to the nominated sites in the event of a disaster. While it may not be practical to make all systems redundant, do not compromise when it comes to mission critical systems. An alternative is the outsource route, especially if there is a very large requirement for desktops and low-end servers.

Data Management: Efficient data management can provide facilities, which automatically back up computer data to remote vaults or mirror copies of databases held at a recovery center. This may not provide fail-over for the system but will ensure data availability.

Facilities and utilities: Supporting a data center like power and network channels should be planned along with backup procedures. The plan should encompass dual power source and supply, and redundant network links from different utility feeds. The team commissioned to design, install, and test the offsite recovery of the data center, should give their feedback to the project manager.

Businesses that require uninterrupted network uptime – such as e-commerce providers – commonly keep their data on more than one server or storage system. This network redundancy ensures that should one system crash, the other one can pick up and run its applications.