IT Infrastructure Availability
Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is the creation and validation of a practiced logistical plan for how an organisation will recover and restore partially or completely interrupted critical (urgent) functions within a predetermined time after a disaster or extended disruption. The logistical plan is called a business continuity plan.
High availability and recovery services for IT infrastructure are critical components of business continuity planning. IT is such an intrinsic part of modern business that without it business simply would not survive. So protecting IT service is usually a priority and for some businesses a statutory or regulatory necessity.
Logical & Physical Protection
Union builds both logical, physical, and territory protection into all its infrastructure designs in line with its clients’ needs, industry best practice, and recognised standards. We not only build technical fault, human error, malicious intent, and natural disaster tolerance into our systems, we ensure the recovery activity can be validated through low impact testing on a regular basis.
Functional Recovery
We employ a no single point of failure approach to architectural physical and functional design, and analyse your recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) for functional areas not technology platforms. This is an important differentiator. Too many organisations decide a particular server is critical, when in fact the service it supports is what the business user wants to recover. That service may consist of a number of support systems otherwise deemed low priority that are often overlooked and become recovery’s Achilles Heel.
Service Alignment
Availability demands are then combined with RPOs and RTOs to create business continuity and recovery service classes which can be aligned to functional areas. From here Union and its clients are able to build a service oriented infrastructure whose investment and purpose is clearly articulated to the business.
We Do It
Whatever the technology or process then required to support the infrastructure – clustering, replication, snap-shotting, dual path load balancing, diverse routing, virtualisation, backup, n+x control and power systems, automated run book, etc – WE DO IT. We have even built our own Tier 3.5 datacentre in Kent to put all your Plan B stuff.
