Disaster recovery and Virtualization

• Backup Solutions
• Desktop Virtualization
• Disaster Recovery
• Server Virtualization
• Storage Solutions

Disaster recovery when you need it and virtualisation solutions to decrease downtime

If availability and accessibility of vital company information you, then disaster recovery is a must for your business. Our disaster recovery and virtualisation team understand that you require access to data if lost or corrupted. Hassle free and fast access to company data ultimately determines the flexibility and productiveness of your workforce.  Our disaster recovery and virtualisation portfolio addresses the concerns and issues that are affiliated with ICT hardware and traditional information sharing and transfer methods.

We are up to date with the latest disaster recovery and virtualisation advances in:

• Server Virtualization
• Desktop Virtualization
• Application virtualization
• Secure data management

We can provide your business with advanced, yet affordable solutions to reduce your IT operational costs and increase end user productivity.We have considerable expertise of virtualization, storage, high availability and data replication, and provide a number of business continuity solutions to safeguard your business against unplanned downtime across both physical and virtual machines.          

Why choose disaster recovery and virtualisation for your business? :

• Normal operations resume quickly
• Unplanned and planned downtime is kept to a minimum
• Reduction in the effects and impacts of unavoidable disasters

Disaster recovery statistics

It is estimated that most large companies allocate roughly 4% of their IT budgets to Business Continuity and data backup solutions. A small price when it is considered that of companies that had a major loss of business data, 43% never reopen, 51% close within two years, and only 6% will survive long-term.

Did you know?

• Hardware or system failures account for 78% of all data loss.
• Human error accounts for 11% of all data loss.
• Software corruption accounts for 7% of all data loss.
• Viruses account only for 3% of all data loss
• Natural disasters account for only 1% of all data loss

High availability designs and principals are not only for when disaster strikes. Have you ever received that annoying phone call from IT asking you to log out of your system so that they can proceed with their scheduled maintenance procedures and updates? Well, with a fully virtualized solution, IT personnel can simply move the Accounts or File server from physical box A to physical box B without users even noticing a thing allowing  Server A to be taking offline for essential maintenance work to be completed!

Even experienced slow server response times during regular periods of high system utilization periods, such as month payroll and reporting? With Vmware DRS technology from VMware®, the overloaded Virtual Server can dynamically “move” in real time with no down time to under-utilized physical servers in the physical resource pool! This will keep your infrastructure operating optimally, even without IT being around, therefore reducing you energy and over-time costs. With this in mind, you quickly realize that having Virtualization and a Disaster Recovery procedure is absolutely vital.

Most SME business owners may feel that their Virtualization requirements are not well catered for in the Irish market, they are wrong... with virtualization solutions such as VMware® Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer, our consultants can evaluate your business suitability for Virtualization and review your current High Availability requirements in order to design a custom Business Continuity Plan to suit your budget.

Our qualified technical consultants can advise on the best way of achieving your High Availability goals by the following this general procedure:

1. Identify the scope and boundaries of the business continuity plan. This includes audit and risk analysis reports for your business’ IT assets.
2. Conduct a business impact analysis (BIA). The Business impact analysis is a study and assessment of the financial losses to your business resulting from a disaster such as unavailability of important business services.
3. Determine acceptable Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO)
4. Get senior management to appreciate the value of an adequate BCP solution and get the financial commitment best suited to the business.
5. Each department will need to understand its role in the BCP plan and procedures / manuals will be drawn up to document the BCP procedure. In the event of a disaster, each department will fully understand their role in the DRS solution.
6. The Unitec BCP project team will then fully implement the BCP design according to specification.

Our disaster recovery and virtualisation team are fully qualified and experienced in virtualization, high Availability solutions and data replication.

Our remit of disaster recovery and virtualization services includes: Backup Solutions, Desktop Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Server Virtualization  and Storage Solutions.

Contact Unitec’s Qualified IT Professionals

 Contact Unitec IT Solutions today to discuss disaster recovery and virtualisation. Telephone 052 614 6001 or email info@unitec.ie