Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Digital Criterion Enterprises leverages its experience to deliver strategic planning, consulting and design of comprehensive, best-of-breed and cost-effective business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) solutions.

Highly available, secure and rapidly recoverable information technology systems are mission-critcal to your business and organization, whether it is a healthcare facility, a financial services company, a government agency, an online retailer, or another corporate or public sector entity.

Your business information is an essential requirement for communicating about and running your company, as well as a true asset that returns value. This makes your data, and the systems on which it resides, vulnerable in new ways every day. System downtime or failure, missing or corrupted data and security threats often mean significant regulatory compliance violations, dramatic revenue loss and much more.

DCE takes a systemic, holistic approach to developing BCDR roadmaps and plans. We start with an analysis of the ways you conduct your business and your overall goals. Our project managers and consultants collaborate with your executive, business end-user, technology and compliance teams to gain an understanding of your requirements and to plan and implement the necessary steps to protect and make highly available your critical business systems and data. We can help you make use of new and innovative technologies in the area of cloud computing to reduce costs and deployment timeframes for your BCDR solution.

Key Focus Areas:

  • Planning of service levels and required budget
  • Assessment of business culture, processes and goals
  • Adherence to regulatory policies for system and data availability requirements for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Billey, Patriot Act, HIPAA, EPA, CDC, Basel II, ERISA, the Turnbull Report, etc.
  • Identification of key individuals within your organization who are responsible for recovery efforts
  • Business impact analysis (BIA) and discovery of the fiscal effects of downtime
  • Comprehensive evaluation of the availability and recoverability of all of your systems, applications and data
  • Mapping of key metrics of recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) for business processes to underlying IT infrastructure
  • Storage and backup solutions including determination of up-time windows for critical functions and deployment of services and technologies to improve these processes
  • Identification of potential threats from natural and man-made disasters and security threats to systems, applications, data and business processes
  • Peripheral requirements for economical solutions for replacement
  • Creation of change management processes and communication plans
  • Creation of application management plans including rapid response plan for re-deploying applications
  • Development of strategies for backup, co-location, replication and failover
  • System selection and impelementation processes for budget planning and IT expertise to select and deploy cost-effective new systems, applications and services

Key Partners:

  • Cisco
  • Citrix
  • HP
  • Microsoft
  • Symantec
  • VMware

Key Benefits and Value:

  • Reduced operational costs
  • Optimized IT infrastructure for higher availability, flexibility, performance and security
  • Minimized downtime
  • Improved productivity
  • Maximized ROI by leveraging existing IT infrastructure