Kavanagh | Backup & Recovery

Backup & Recovery

Maintain a stable business environment

Reliable and effective backup capability is vital for the integrity of company information to be maintained. IT Infrastructures have undergone significant change over recent years and backup and recovery procedures that used to be effective have often become unworkable. This can be caused by changes in data volumes, enhanced service levels or organisational change.

In addition, organisations have become more accountable for the integrity and availability of historical data in order to comply with standards of good governance. As a result, the backup/recovery techniques adopted by the IT organisation have become critical to the business.

Benefits of a Backup and Recovery solution

Simplify your backup systems and procedures
Reduce the risk of data loss and total cost of protecting data
Decrease backup time
Lighten server and network loads
Close the backup "window" – restore data in hours, rather than days
Minimise business disruptions due to installation or configuration problems
Reduce backup staffing and training costs

Kavanagh's expertise

Kavanagh will work with you to analyse your business and IT environment, develop a comprehensive integration plan and timetable, design an architecture that suits your critical requirements, install back up software, implement and support your solution and validate and monitor your configuration.

Kavanagh's consultative approach

Kavanagh will evaluate the business and operational requirements for data protection in order to develop a backup and recovery strategy that meets the current and future needs of the organisation. Specifically Kavanagh will:

Identify key individuals and stakeholders
Conduct a series of interviews to identify issues and requirements concerning the protection of data
Analyse the results in order to highlight the priorities in terms of managing costs, mitigating risk and improving operational and business efficiency
Review findings and provide recommendations on next steps for re-implementing a Backup/Recovery architecture that maximises benefits to the business by minimising data loss and downtime

Deliverables

You will receive a document which will include the following information:

Summary of discussions during the interviews
Consolidated and prioritised key issues and requirements
The current situation in terms of backup and recovery policies and procedures
An assessment of the identified issues
Evaluated benefits of alternative approaches to meeting the requirements
Key steps required to achieve each approach
Provide details on the recommended strategy and an indication of achievable business/IT benefits

Next steps

Contact Kavanagh on 01344 407977 to discuss your backup and recovery strategy
Attend the Confident Recovery of IT Services event