Disaster Recovery

As the name implies Disaster Recovery is the ability for an organization to recover from a catastrophic outage, providing employees, customers and partners access to critical applications with out the loss of data. The key element that will determine the overall cost of such solutions is how quickly one must recover from an outage. Some businesses can get away with two or three days while others can not have any down time at all. Up time is typically measured in 9’s. Five 9’s equates to 5 minutes of allowed down time per year, planned or unplanned.

Often overlooked or misunderstood with Disaster Rocovery are the supporting services and infrastructure required to recover an application or system. DTM Systems follows a methodology that ensures all such services are accounted for. All applications are identified and rated as to their importance to the organization. Along the other axis all services and infrastructure are identified and cross referenced to the application dependant on it. This chart becomes vital as part of the change management process as well to ensure any piece along the infrastructure is accounted for.

Another vital consideration that must be considered is the required or available bandwidth to provide data replication over a Wide Area Network (WAN). As part of our services offerings DTM Systems is able to provide a bandwidth analysis on your present private or public connections as well as advise to the necessary bandwidth required for the data replication needed from the Disaster Recovery plan. DTM Systems is your best choice when evaluating High Availability and Disaster Recovery technologies, we represent a wide variety set of solutions which will allow you to chose from a ‘good, better, best’ approach when weighing the balance of cost versus time to replicate and recover. If your Business Continuance plan requires fault tolerant cluster (no switch over time) or failover less than 1 minute DTM can provide options Windows, UNIX and Linux platforms. We provide fault tolerant systems, Microsoft Cluster as well as Cluster Alternatives which will provide the required elements and benefits of a cluster at a much lower cost.

We are also happy to assist if you require third party hosting services utilizing our many partners across Canada and the USA. Our services also dove tail with those from HP and IBM allowing for complimentary local and global service offerings.