Organisations heavily depend on ICT and digital services, with practically zero tolerance for downtime.
But how can ICT and digital teams balance desired recovery objectives with realistic recovery capabilities?
The consequences of a disruption to your ICT and digital services are able to be reduced to a manageable level. The key is to proactively manage known risks and implement preventive controls.
Whether you call it a ‘disaster recovery plan’ or an ‘ICT service continuity and recovery plan’, Frame helps you to develop the strategy and disaster recovery solution to ensure you’re prepared for the worst.
What you can expect
Practices and procedures that can be swiftly accessed and conveniently used to handle disruptions to ICT services include various disaster recovery methods. These methods encompass backup solutions, hot and cold sites, Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), and virtualisation, which help sustain operations during and after a disaster.
A thorough appreciation of an organisation’s reliance on technology and what’s required for business continuity in today’s environment
A one-size-fits-all approach to recovery and continuity planning is neither realistic nor cost effective. Different systems have different criticalities and require different strategies.
Frame specialises in assisting ICT and digital teams in communicating effectively with their business peers and understanding the real continuity and recovery requirements. An essential part of this process is forming a disaster recovery team, which includes IT specialists and leadership figures to ensure coordinated efforts and timely recovery actions in response to disasters.
We assist you to define the levels of criticality and design solutions for each level. Using this approach, Frame ensures your organisation does not overspend on unneeded capabilities, yet is adequately protected from disruption.
The approach ensures you’re able to meet your customers’ expectations regarding delivery of ICT and digital services, by assisting your organisation to:
- minimise the duration of a serious disruption to business
- facilitate effective decision-making during a disaster or emergency
- enact effective coordination of continuity and recovery tasks
- reduce the complexity of the recovery effort
- maximise the reliability of any business continuity facility
- ensure an orderly resumption of normal business operations, within an acceptable timeframe
- set a standard for testing and reviewing the plan.
A streamlined process for a disaster recovery plan, providing maximum assistance for your staff, with least interruption
To start, we perform a risk evaluation and business impact analysis focused on your ICT and digital infrastructure and applications. We then develop practical, cost-effective strategic options tailored to the needs of your organisation and customers.
A good disaster recovery plan is essential for minimising the impact of disasters on customer trust and business operations. It includes key elements such as team coordination, risk evaluation, critical asset identification, ongoing testing and optimisation to ensure preparedness and reliability during unforeseen events.
Once the strategy is in place, we can help you implement the plan.
Our modular framework gives you step-by-step guidance to make sure your plan is pragmatic, achievable and maintainable.
It means that your people, who have the skills necessary to contribute to the plan, get the maximum assistance with the least interruption to their normal duties.
We provide your staff with the tools necessary to get the best possible result:
- a set of document templates with guidelines for creating plans that are easy to follow and are written in plain English
- facilitation of the process
- training and transfer of the skills needed.
Once developed, Frame can guide you with the essentials required to maintain the plan, so it continues to provide the support you expect.
Get the clarity you need for the most effective disaster recovery strategy and plan
Speak to one of our consultants to find out how Frame’s disaster recovery strategy and planning services can help make a difference to your organisation. Our disaster recovery recommendations can help to ensure the quick restoration of business systems following an outage, relying on data replication and off-site resources to mitigate the impact of disasters.