Access to data and customers is becoming everyone's business.

Do you understand the risks?

In a world where business is undeniably tied to customers, data, and the ability to communicate, there may be nothing more important than mitigating an unforeseen disaster.

Prudent management demands that while you may expect the best from your systems, you need to prepare for the worst. The economic consequences of system failure are compelling.

Lost Revenue / Hour of Downtime

Source: Meta Group, 10/2000

When a system goes down and critical business applications are unavailable, users sit idle. The business machinery grinds to a halt. While the revenue loss may be substantial, it can be trivial when compared to the effect on customer relationships. The effects can be long-term and debilitating. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor, 93 percent of the firms that had a significant data loss were out of business in five years.

Mitigating these effects can be made affordable and practical. The ECS designs feature state of the art HP technologies that reduce the costs of providing redundant capabilities. Today's solutions may only be a fifth of the cost required for older systems.
Benefit from Experience
Disaster recovery planning and implementation is simplified by using ECS expertise and broad experience. ECS has designed and implemented many successful Disaster Recovery systems including a comprehensive plan for one of the world's largest consumer goods companies. Proprietary methodology provides a superior approach to redundant system design and development that delivers more protection at a lower cost.

Three-Step Process

1. Analyze Business Requirements

  • Perform analysis of your current business environment to identify opportunities to optimize the economic benefit
  • Analyze your business requirements for information communication and operational alternatives
  • Create target architecture for your environment
  • Assist with the development of acceptance and test specifications that validate the solution performance

2. Design a Solution Around Business Needs

  • Validate the target architecture through testing
  • Provide detailed hardware and software specifications
  • Develop budgetary alternatives

3. Implement and Validate

  • Implement the cost-effective solution
  • Deliver operational procedures "Redbook"
  • Develop functional testing process that will validate overall compliance to requirements
  • Execute dry-run and make modifications based on results