Excelsior offers a consultation services for disaster recovery of IT infrastructures.  Business recovery and restoration, or business resumption, goes right to a facility’s bottom-line: keeping people employed and the business running.  Excelsior believes that every company, regardless of size should have a customized disaster plan.

Having a disaster recovery plan is a dynamic process.  Planning is just the first step.  Training, conducting drills, testing equipment and coordinating activities are other important functions.

Services Include:

• Preventative Maintenance
• Schedules for all systems and equipment, and off-site backups
• Backup Strategy
• Data Centers, Departmental File Servers, Wireless Network Servers, Data at Outsourced Sites, Desktops (in office and “at home”), Laptops, and PDAs
• Recovery Strategy
• Approach, escalation plan process, equipment replacement, and decision points
• Disaster Recovery Procedures
• Technical Appendix
• Definition of necessary phone numbers and contact points

What Is A Disaster?

A disaster is any unplanned event that can shut down your business, disrupt operations, or threaten the facility’s financial standing or public image.  Planning for these events will significantly reduce recovery costs and down time. Of companies that had a major loss of computerized data or records, 43% never reopen, 51% close within two years, and only 6% will survive long-term.  (Cummings, Haag & McCubbrey 2005.)

Examples of Disasters

• Natural disasters
• Fire
• Equipment theft
• Terrorist attacks

Benefits

• Facilitates compliance with regulatory requirements of Federal, State and local agencies.
• Enhances your company’s ability to recover from financial losses, regulatory fines, loss of market share, damages to equipment or products or business interruption.
• Reduces exposure to civil or criminal liability in the event of an incident.
• Enhances your company’s image and credibility with employees, customers, suppliers and the community.
• It may reduce your insurance premiums.