Are you sure you can recover from an IT related disaster?

Is your school district ready to deal with an information systems disaster? Maybe your IT team has a plan but are you sure they have taken all the steps necessary to protect your information assets? Unfortunately, for many there is an unsafe gap between how you think you will recover and what recovery actually will include. Many school districts find out that they are not prepared to recover when a disaster actually strikes.

In general there are three basic reasons why disaster recovery plans don’t work.

1. Initial plans don’t grow or change as data requirements and application dependencies change.
2. Recovery along with data backup plans rely upon the availability of equipment and software that existed when the plan originated.
3. Recovery plans often rely upon normal processes rather than new or dynamic processes necessitated by the new environment created by the disaster.

Quatro Systems approaches disaster recovery preparedness on two levels.

• Organizational Disaster Preparedness Services
• Application Availability Services

Organizational Disaster Preparedness Services

• Readiness Review
• Risk Assessment
• Business Impact Analysis
• Recovery Strategy Development
• Business Continuity Plan
• Rehearsal Test Support

Application Availability Services

• In-district Disaster Recovery Implementation
• Server and Application Availability
• Data Backup
• Data Replication
• Out of Disaster Recovery Implementation
• Secure Access
• Hardened World Class Data center
• High Availability