Maintain availability and minimize data loss with disaster recovery

Quickly recover your operations after disruptions with expert-led disaster recovery (DR) services and testing that fit your risk, business, and technical requirements.

Professional Services - Disaster Recovery
OVERVIEW
Use your disaster recovery with confidence

Many organizations are not ready for a disaster scenario because they lack a documented disaster recovery plan that meets the reality of their environment, and they have not tested whether their plan works. Working with your organization’s IT team, Flexential disaster recovery and DRaaS experts expand the available resources to build and maintain effective disaster recovery.

  • Outdated, incomplete, or untested disaster recovery plans and runbooks that can’t be guaranteed to work when needed
  • Lack of funding approval to implement disaster recovery for business-critical applications
  • Challenges in keeping data protection systems up to date and maintained amid environment changes
  • Lack of internal expertise, experience, or training for when the unexpected occurs
Certified experts to analyze, design, plan, test and maintain your disaster recovery program
Disaster recovery readiness
Flexential experts create, manage, and mature your best practice-based disaster recovery program
Reduced risk of unplanned downtime
Minimize the risk of unavailable applications and data loss with disaster recovery that’s tested and ready.
Faster data and application recoveries
Shorten recovery times with a better prepared internal team with knowledgeable sharing from Flexential certified experts
Improved compliance
Data protection programs tailored to technical and regulatory needs including CMMC, FFIEC, HIPAA, ISO, NIST, PCI DSS, and SOX.
Get vital funding for data protection
Strategies, services, and assessments to help leadership understand current risk levels.
Sleep at night
Tailored, planned, trained, tested, updated, and re-tested for confidence and effectiveness.
Disaster recovery strategy, planning, testing, and maturity programs.
Programs
A comprehensive disaster recovery program

Increasing resiliency requirements demand that organizations continuously mature a comprehensive disaster recovery  program. However, most IT teams are challenged with a lack of specialized expertise and bandwidth to regularly maintain and mature their disaster recovery program.

  • A customized program aligned with your organization’s business, technical, and compliance requirements
  • Continuous maintenance, improvements, and maturity of the disaster recovery program
  • Confidence in a regularly tested, updated, and validated disaster recovery solution
  • Risk reductions from identifying and addressing potential gaps before incidents
  • Expert support for meeting insurance and regulatory compliance requirements
  • Peace of mind from knowing critical applications can recover quickly and reliably when needed
  • Disaster recovery program management
    Designed to create, test, maintain, and continuously improve a comprehensive disaster recovery program tailored to an organization's unique IT infrastructure, business goals, and compliance requirements. 
    The program includes detailed discovery and analysis to identify critical systems and dependencies, customized disaster recovery design and planning, quarterly checks to keep the program updated and effective, and bi-annual testing to validate recovery capabilities. 
    Delivered by certified disaster recovery professionals and a PMP-certified project manager, this program delivers reliable, tested, and documented disaster recovery readiness.
Strategy
Use a documented disaster recovery strategy

Understand your organization’s required disaster recovery strategy for your current environments. Gain a 3rd party analysis of solution needs for obtaining funding approvals.

Deliverables include a documented strategy, with recommendations on architecture, documentation, RTO, and RPO levels, identified risks, and prerequisites needed before implementation.

  • Your disaster recovery requirements are assessed by experienced experts in recovery, security, and risk
  • Workload prioritization and resiliency strategies per workload
  • Incorporates high availability, security, and regulatory considerations in your new strategy
  • Addresses hybrid architectures and on-premises, colocation, and cloud sites
  • Especially well-suited for large or complex landscapes where experience and expertise are needed
  • Applicable for traditional disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, and public cloud
  • Disaster recovery strategy
    The Flexential disaster recovery strategy service is a collaborative, vendor-agnostic engagement designed to co-create and document a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy tailored to an organization's unique business, technical, and regulatory requirements. 
    The engagement includes assessing the current environment, identifying weaknesses, and developing a roadmap for disaster recovery that spans the entire organization.
Assessments
Validate your existing disaster recovery plan

Assess your current disaster recovery strategy and methodology, identify gaps between current and future states, and receive detailed remediation actions. Validate plans to meet business and compliance requirements.

  • Assessed by experienced experts in recovery, security, and risk
  • Improved disaster recovery reliability and stability
  • Remediation guide for closing gaps and decreasing risk
  • Architecture examined for validation or modernization recommendations
  • Disaster recovery gap analysis
    The disaster recovery gap analysis service analyzes your current disaster recovery strategy and methodology to identify gaps between the existing recovery capabilities and the organization's needs. Deliverables include detailed remediation actions to address these gaps, to maintain a  comprehensive and effective disaster recovery plan.
Design and planning
Customized disaster recovery plans that work when you need them

A disaster recovery plan and design that meets your organization’s unique business, technical, and compliance needs.

  • Best practice methodology using the NIST SP 800-34 contingency planning guide
  • Runbook for initiation and testing compliant with CMMC, FFIEC, HIPAA, ISO, NIST, PCI DSS, and SOX
  • Addresses hybrid IT environments and connectivity with experience and expertise
  • Delivered by experienced and certified disaster recovery experts who work on disaster recovery solutions every day
  • Addresses all workload locations and architectures
  • Disaster recovery design and planning
    Assessment of your environment to identify systemic weaknesses that could lead to damaging downtime. Design and planning include provisions for activation, testing, and return to normal operations. 
    Receive a unified disaster recovery plan and design that meets your organization’s unique technical and compliance needs that span the entire organization.
Testing
Have the confidence to use your disaster recovery plan

Disaster recovery service that supports regular testing of a disaster recovery plan and the remediation of any discovered gaps.

  • Trust your disaster recovery is ready when you need it
  • Increase disaster recovery reliability and application availability
  • Receive detailed and actionable remediation recommendations
  • Have recovery plans that work as environments change
  • Regularly validated remediations and changes
  • Disaster recovery experts provide expertise and knowledge sharing with your team
  • Assisted testing
    Our disaster recovery experts plan the testing, create disaster recovery runbooks, prepare your team, and facilitate the testing. You’ll receive documented system recovery times (RTO), discovered gaps, and detailed and actionable remediation recommendations. 
    Proper follow-up testing maintains your recovery plan when the environment changes.
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