Does Your IT Business Continuity Plan Support Rapid Data Recovery?

Why Do You Need an IT Business Continuity Plan?

It’s no secret that data and network infrastructure are at the heart of operations for modern businesses. An IT business continuity plan is crucial to keep an organization operating during a disaster event such as a cloud outage or a malicious cyber attack like ransomware. This is essentially a plan within the larger plan, as it accounts for all things IT-related, ranging from keeping servers online to recovering and restoring lost or stolen data. And during a potentially crippling disaster event, the speed at which you can recover and restore data makes all the difference.

How to Enable Rapid Data Recovery in an IT Business Continuity Plan

While all data is important to an organization, not all data is necessarily equal or mission-critical to maintaining business operations. When disaster recovery is underway, it’s important to be equipped with a way to identify and prioritize restoring specific data sets and workloads over others.

If your organization has migrated to the cloud, know that your recovery abilities ultimately depend on your choice of cloud backup platform.

Restoring whole data and workload instances via cloud backup can be time-consuming and may slow down the speed of recovery, potentially jeopardizing an organization’s Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective parameters and creating a break in business continuity. Rapid data recovery can be achieved with capabilities such as granular recovery, which lets you choose and prioritize specific data and instances for restoration while a full recovery commences, rather than waiting for all enterprise data to be restored, regardless of importance.

Achieve Rapid Restore with Clumio

Clumio’s industry-leading cloud backup-as-a-service provides enterprises with the tools necessary for rapid data restores during a disaster event. With capabilities such as granular recovery, flexible recovery, and global search, Clumio allows users to pinpoint specific mission-critical data and workloads to restore first, along with the ability to instantly restore from any regions that are unaffected by the outage or disaster.

Other features include:

• Instant backups of AWS data across your entire organization
• Air-gapped backup storage to provide protection from ransomware and other malicious attacks
• Simplified data compliance with global policies
• Optimized backups and insights into potential cost-savings