Disaster Recovery Planning: Making the case for “Always Be Testing” (ABT)

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Making the Disaster Recovery Planning case for
Always Be Testing (ABT)
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HOW CONFIDENT ARE YOU ABOUT YOUR SYSTEM TESTING?
CONFIDENT ENOUGH TO ERASE YOUR HARD DISK RIGHT
NOW AND RESTORE FROM YOUR DATA BACKUP?
COLD FEET?
Then its time you commit to Always Be Testing
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Why Always Be Testing?
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Hard Facts 1
Most small to mid-sized businesses experience at
least one system downtime a year.
1 Aberdeen Group 2 Harris Interactive Survey
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Hard Facts 2
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Yet, most organizations believe that Disaster
Recovery Testing is more trouble than its worth.
DO YOU?
2011 Survey
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Do you believe that without DR Testing your data
and applications could be recovered successfully?
Unlikely, if you havent chosen your Disaster
Recovery Solution correctly.
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Choose your Disaster Recovery Solution correctly
with daily real-world tests that are
Time-consuming
Costly
Complex
A drain on resources
NOT
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Constant Change

• Remember, your hardware, software and systems are
  constantly changing
• Your data backup/data recovery must take
• these changes into account.
• Your disaster recovery solution has to be
• updated to-the-minute.
• Shortcuts, or traditional testing methods,
• dont work.
• Without daily DR Testing, your data, servers
• and applications may be in danger.

For example, overlapping daily weekly updates
from Microsoft Security Essentials, Windows
Defender Definitions, SAP Security, Microsofts
Patch Tuesdays/Extraordinary Patch Tuesdays,
Adobe Flash etc. are altering your system
environment constantly.
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Even the tiniest change in your IT system
can increase the odds of a future glitch in your
data recovery.
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Vulnerability

• Did you know there are many reasons
• for failed recoveries?
• Corrupted backup media (disk or tape based).
• Tape drive failure not writing/reading
  accurately.
• Missing tape(s) in a series of tapes to
  restore.
• New replacement of tape drive that cant read
  older tape formats.
• Human error.

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Are you sure your existing Disaster Recovery
Testing is safeguarding your company's revenue
and reputation?
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In short, you must be able to test every day. So
you must have the correct Disaster Recovery
Solution, with one click recovery and daily
testing.
Real World ABT Success Talent recruiting firm
24 Seven, Inc. had just finished testing its
hybrid cloud DR solution when Superstorm Sandy
hit in October 2012. Thanks to its commitment to
ABT, the organization maintained business as
usual, without missing a beat. Even though its
Manhattan headquarters had to close, operations
critical to payroll (24 Sevens main
responsibility) were carried through. The
reputation of the company remained intact, thanks
to foresight and diligence.
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Quorum Disaster Recovery Solutions
Assured Recovery
One-Click Recovery
Easy Testing Capabilities
No Ifs and Buts
No Fine Print
Its simple Our solutions work! And you have
peace of mind.
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Quorum Disaster Recovery Solutions COMMITED TO
ALWAYS BE TESTING

• Quorum provides assured, one click backup,
  recovery and continuity.
• Quorums simple and cost-effective solutions
  safeguard your revenue,
• customers and reputation.
• Quorum Solutions reduce downtime to mere
  minutes with a single click.

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