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Disaster Recovery, Are You Prepared?

By: lee101 Home | Computers-and-Technology | Data Recovery


Disaster recovery is one of the most important
factors for most businesses, yet it is often
overlooked or considered too expensive to
implement.

Disaster recovery solutions enable a business to
continue working in the event of fire, theft,
malfunction or terrorism. By preparing for
disaster recovery, your business will not lose
any valuable data, configurations or time, saving
you money in the long run.

By backing up data, applications, and settings
continuously, to a secure location, your business
will be ready for any disaster situation.

Any proven IT company can provide these services,
but at what cost, and how good is it?

Since the introduction of Citrix and Microsoft's
Terminal Services, it has been possible to
provide these disaster recovery services at a
much lower cost, with greatly enhanced security
benefits.

Switch your IT system to a corporate-level,
Terminal Services environment and what you get is
a complete disaster recovery solution for a much
lower cost than you would expect.

As well as having your data and applications held
in secure data centres, your data could be
continuously backed up, providing total disaster
recovery. The ultimate solution is to have
complete redundancy for your IT system and this
involves not having any single point of failure
within your IT infrastructure.

Imagine having your company's entire data,
software and structure housed in two separate
data centres, spread across two different ISPs,
and having all your systems and data held on
servers that have their own backup servers to
automatically switch on, in the event of failure.

Most corporations do not have this level of
redundancy, but for a fixed, monthly fee, this
and more is possible for companies with anything
from two uses to a thousand users.

Apart from all the mentioned benefits, you could
also get the power of hosted Microsoft Exchange,
Outlook Web Access, easy Blackberry mobile
integration, hosted Microsoft CRM, and for the
ultimate peace of mind, you can have portable
security keys as used by major companies around
the world to secure data, where password-only
protection fails.

These systems and solutions put companies back in
control of their IT, as systems are centrally
managed, updated and supported from outside
company offices, providing a completely
outsourced solution that will save you money,
instead of costing more.

Some companies get nervous by the prospect of
their entire data being held offsite, but this
can be the safest option as multi-million pound
data centres have all the facilities to safeguard
and protect your data 24 hours a day. With high-
powered backup generators, security patrols and
fire suppression equipment, your data and
applications will be in complete safety, giving
you a powerful remote system with disaster
recovery to take your business to the next level.



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Lee Smith writes articles on IT Systems and
Disaster Recovery solutions for SME and corporate
business using Microsoft's Terminal Services and
also on Citrix
http://www.networklondon.co.uk/disaster-recovery.
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