Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
At IT Weapons, we are rethinking business continuity.
Real continuity doesn't come from recovery... it comes from resilience. Your organization should strive to anticipate risk and develop response capabilities proactively. This is true business resiliency.
Infrastructure Resilience
The challenge is to anticipate your business requirements and be prepared for the possibility of operator errors, system failures, power outages, weather disruptions, labour disputes, and even large scale disasters. Developing a resilient IT infrastructure is crucial to ensuring your operational efficiency and ongoing continuity. There are a number of challenges in ensuring the integrity of your information ecosystem:
- Maintaining infrastructure device health
- Preventing single points of failure
- Contingency planning
- Data Centre resilience and management
- Developing disaster recovery solutions and strategies
- Ensuring application availability and delivery
IT Weapons is Your Trusted Advisor
Choosing IT Weapons means you get holistic, business-centric solutions. Our certified business continuity consultants work closely with your key personnel to assess your needs and develop strategies. Our highly collaborative approach will help you:
- Take a compound picture of your business, identify risks and disruptive scenarios, and acknowledge vulnerabilities
- Identify potential costs to your business; such as loss of revenue, customer confidence, and reputation
- Reduce the business impact from unexpected disruptive events
- Recover fast and effectively from disruptions
- Protect your critical applications and data
- Improve staff efficiency and productivity by documenting and streamlining recovery processes
- Develop scenario exercises to ensure your organization's procedures are transparent and feasible
Proactive Infrastructure Monitoring & Alerting
IT Weapons actively prevents technical problems and network downtime from occurring, helping your business achieve strong return on your technology investments. Remote monitoring gives IT Weapons a 24 hour real-time view of client IT assets and networks, so that early symptoms of trouble can be identified, and mitigating actions are taken before the problem becomes severe. We also provide root cause analysis and recommendations for future stability. Learn more about our Infrastructure Management.
Infrastructure Hosting Services
IT Weapons has one of the most resilient and dependable Data Centres in Canada. We offer a full range of infrastructure hosting services, including:
- 24/7x365 proactive monitoring, support and onsite security
- 99.999% uptime and high availability
- UPS and dual gas generator backup power
- Multi-stage dry pipe fire suppression system
- Multi-homed upstream internet connectivity
- Full N+1 redundancy on all core routers and switches, internet, and cooling. Learn more about our Data Centre and Managed Services
The IT Weapons Alternate Workspace
Today's organizations must take an active role in maintaining the resiliency of their business and determine how they can continue operating during a disruption. IT Weapons' Alternate Workspace offers a dedicated office space that enables organizations to function during a disruption. It holds the key to executing a successful business continuity and disaster recovery plan by offering:
- Dedicated IT Recovery Space to allow organizations to recover their critical systems and applications during a time of a disruption
- Business Continuity Plan Testing Facility to test critical business functions and processes as identified and documented in your business continuity plan
- Crisis Command Centre for group leaders and steering committee members to meet in order to direct the next course of action when the organization has enacted emergency measures
Alternate Workspace Facility Features
- Modular workstations
- Thin client terminals
- Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony
- Shared office services, including printing, faxing, and copying
- Executive offices
- Kitchen and shower facilities
- UPS and generated backup power
- Redundant internet and network links
- Security
- Fireproof media vault
- Free parking
- Easy access to main highways, roads, and public transit
Contact us today for a tour of the Alternate Workspace and to learn more about our Business Continuity solutions.