Ensuring business continuity is the single greatest use case for a Disaster Recovery Plan /System in place today. All enterprises relying on Information Technology (IT) as a driver for meeting business requirements and achieving profitability require resources that enable consistent backups, prompt disaster recovery, and reliable high-availability of their digital services. However, capital and operational management costs for comprehensive solutions are often out-of-reach for many of today’s budget conscious organizations. Adopting robust business continuity services from Dake DRP Solution allows businesses to cost-effectively ensure consistent IT availability.

Business Continuity: A Critical Driver for Disaster Recovery Plan / System.

In brief, business continuity activities are processes for ensuring critical IT services are uninterrupted and the impact of unexpected infrastructure failures are minimized. Processes for data backups, disaster recovery and high-availability all fall under the topic of business continuity. Requirements for these services vary based on individual business needs and may include ensuring availability of some or all of the following resource levels:

 Data Loss – individual files, e-mails, or database entries must be easily recoverable if unintentionally deleted or lost due to a security breech or system error.

 Workstation Loss – end-user desktops and laptops need to be quickly rebuilt to prevent productivity loss in the event of a system failure.

 Server Loss – critical production services need to be continuously available even if the primary server should fail to function properly.

 Site Loss – in the event an entire business facility experiences a catastrophic failure, such as a fire or flood, all on-site IT components and services need to be recoverable within an acceptable period of time to minimize any impact on the organization.

Key Features of the DRP:

 Continuous Data Mirroring: Unlike other backup systems that take point-in-time snapshots of desktops and servers, our solution continuously captures data on desktops and servers

 Data Recovery: Recoveries are application independent; any application's data can be accessed just as easily as accessing it through the operating system

 Failover Virtualization: The Solution is capable of hosting virtual workloads of failed servers or desktops. The data is continuously being mirrored from your physical desktop or server into a Dake Environment. Mirrored data can be easily configured to run as a virtual workload

 Bare Metal Recovery: Bare Metal Restore greatly lowers the time a technician is involved in restoration. Windows servers and desktops can be rebuilt from any previous point-in-time restore point

 Granular Exchange Recovery: It will recover more than just email messages. Recover virtually any Microsoft® Outlook items or message attachments, including:

o   Individual messages, folders, complete mailboxes

o   Calendar items, tasks, notes and address book contacts

o   Message attachment files

o   Public Folders database items

Key Benefits:

Improve Recovery Time Objectives: Improves the time it takes to recover from an accidental deletion of a file to a system crash. Recover files, folders and emails in minutes with easy to use tools. Virtualize an entire server or desktop in a few quick steps after a system crash.

Scalable Solution: The solution Dake provides is built on a scalable infrastructure with limitless storage capacity making expanding your storage pool easy and hassle free.

Reliable and Secure: DRP employs the revolutionary BitSpread codec. BitSpread stores data in data blocks that are written across a range of disks. Every block is written across a different range. The BitSpread codec can then reconstruct the original data from any subset of written blocks.

Extend Protection Beyond Servers: The DRP Solution extends business continuity to desktop and laptop users with near-zero impact on system performance and no user intervention required.

Failover Virtualization: The solution provides near-line business continuity for your Windows servers, desktops and laptops. Traditionally it can take days to recover from a hardware failure. Reinstalling the operating system, applications and data restores all take valuable time. Virtualizing failed hardware with Dake DRP is an easy process. Simply run the SPM or P2V tools and your hardware is up and running.

Contact sales@dake.co.za for information on how Dake can assist your DRP requirements