Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery is something every company hopes they never have to use. The reality of it though is that at some point, it could happen to your company. Is your company or office prepared to deal with some kind of technical disaster where your systems are down and have to be restored? Have you thought about what your RPO is? What about your RTO? Have you done a BIA yet?

RPO is your Recovery Point Objective. This is the point in time to which your business says you must have data restored to. For example, if the disaster strikes at 4pm in the afternoon and the RPO is 3hrs, then you must be able to restore data up to 1pm that day.

RTO is your Recovery Time Objective. This is the time in which it takes to restore business functions. For example, the Payroll systems objective might be two weeks because at worse case, you just resubmit the last payroll cycle. But the AP group might be within 4hrs because you need to pay your suppliers before they cut off services.

BIA is your Business Impact Analysis. This is where our team of disaster recovery specialists perform an analysis of what the impact to your business would be if your IT infrastructure were to crash. Through the BIA, we would figure out what your RPO and RTO would be.

We've just thrown a bunch of acronyms at you and now you're thinking, "Where do I start?" At Think, we have Disaster Recover specialists on staff to help you out. Our technical services team has implemented both global and local Disaster Recovery solutions for our clients. Contact us to talk about how Think can help you.