Disaster Recovery
Getting back to‘business as usual’
What is IT disaster recovery?
Disaster Recovery involves real-time file backups, where a file is updated on a clients network, then instantly duplicated into a secure environment. It means that you can regain speedy access and functionality to your core business IT data and infrastructure after a disaster, man-made or other, strikes.
At Nostra, we focus on three key areas of Disaster Recovery.
Disaster Recovery Planning
Disaster Recovery Testing
Business Impact Analysis
What we do
Top 3 Disaster Recovery Plans
A disaster recovery (DR) plan is a formal document created by an organisation that contains detailed instructions on how to respond to a disruptive event such as natural disasters, power outages, and cyber-attacks. The plan involves strategies to minimise the effects of a disaster, allowing you to operate or quickly resume key operations.
A successful DR plan
What we do
Disaster Recovery Testing
Disaster Recovery Testing is the process of ensuring that an organisation can recover data, restore business critical applications and continue operations after a disruption to its IT services.
A disaster recovery test (DR test) checks each step of a disaster recovery plan is outlined in an organisation’s business continuity/disaster recovery (BCDR) planning process.
Main goals of DR Testing
Communications, data recovery and application recovery are typically a focus of all disaster recovery testing.
DR Plan Questions
- How long does it take for the services to recover?
- How long does it take to recover the data?
- How are the services/data affected?
- How will the system behave if part of the infrastructure becomes unavailable?
Regular Testing
Disaster recovery tests should be scheduled and executed on a regular basis throughout the year and be incorporated into all planned maintenance and staff training. Audit logs and other data should be analysed to determine what worked / didn’t work as expected, and what changes need to be made in the DR plan.
What we do
Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
What is a BIA?
A Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is a systematic process to determine and evaluate the potential effects of an interruption to critical business operations as a result of a disaster, accident or emergency.
Forecast Costs of IT Failure
A BIA is likely to identify costs linked to failures, such as loss of cash flow, replacement of equipment, salaries paid to catch up with a backlog of work, loss of profits, staff and data, and so on. A BIA report quantifies the importance of business components and may suggest appropriate fund allocation for measures to protect them.
Assessment Over Time
A BIA should assess a disaster’s impact over time and help to establish recovery strategies, priorities, and requirements for resources and time.
BIA Report
Following the BIA, this subsequent report describes the potential risks specific to the particular organisation studied.
Our Services
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Our continuous improvement and learnings mean that we’re always on the pulse of what’s new in the ever evolving world of IT. Our clients rest easy because they know they’re in safe hands with us.
Testimonials
Our clients
say it best
Capital Credit Union transferred to Nostra for managing our network and immediately felt confident that our system would be brought up to the best possible standards of monitoring and maintenance. I am happy to recommend them as a strong network services provider.
Pat Byrne
Operations Manager Capital Credit Union
Life Credit Union moved to Nostra to manage our IT infrastructure in 2019. In our heavily regulated environment Nostra are an integral part of our team, providing key IT support and giving us confidence in our IT infrastructure moving forward. We have already realized significant improvements in our network security and connectivity since they onboarded with us. We look forward to a long term and proactive partnership with Nostra.
Karen Mulligan
CEO Life Credit Union
Since partnering with Nostra, they have become an integral part of our team, dealing with core IT functions. They are also well-versed in identifying and mitigating the latest advancements in cyber threats and having this confidence allows us to focus on our membership and drive our Credit Union forward.
CEO
Credit Union
The IT outsourcing management that Nostra provide to us is critical to our day to day operations and Nostra work proactively to understand every aspect of our company in an attempt to ensure the smooth running of the business. What Nostra do better than anyone else is free up management time.
COO
Aerospace Sector
We chose Nostra as our provider because they understand our business and give a proactive approach to managing our I.T. They advise us on keeping our systems stable and our costs down. They have become key to our business.
Financial Controller
Hospitality Sector
Why choose us
Why Nostra?
We pride ourselves on designing and deploying a completely seamless network solution. Once this is achieved without downtime or disruption, we then monitor and manage the system from our headquarters. We do this seven days a week, so that you can focus on growing your business rather than worrying about security breaches.
We know how to secure your critical data and defend your infrastructure from unauthorised access and security breaches. Our support team works around the clock to shield your servers, desktops, laptops, tablets and phones from spam, viruses & malware.
We are accredited by the largest networking and security vendors as a provider of Managed IT Services. Palo Alto, Cisco, Barracuda, GFI, N-Able, and SonicWALL have invested in the support and training of Nostra technicians. As a result, you can be assured the very best, independently accredited service technicians.
Lets work together
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Continuity and the many other services we offer; we’re here to assist you.
