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DISASTER RECOVERY A Commvault® real-time transformation workshop Disaster management and business continuity activities are essential for maintaining an edge in today’s competitive environment. As companies depend more on technology to conduct even simple business tasks, protecting against disaster grows increasingly vital for success. Regular disaster recovery planning is a necessity; overlooking it can threaten your company. Balancing the cost of downtime and data loss with business requirements requires in-depth understanding of your applications’ recovery metrics (RTO/RPO), as well as the variety of technologies available to achieve them.
Commvault’s Disaster Recovery workshop makes it easier to be proactive. Our seasoned consultants will help you understand your current environment, envision a pragmatic future state for disaster recovery and develop a plan of action to realize your goals. The action plan is developed using a business-directed approach and identifies the critical success factors required to mitigate risk and achieve your goals. Take control. Maximize the value of your data.
Workshop Benefits • Align your business goals, constraints, risks, critical success factors, disaster recovery design and implementation plan
• Develop a clear understanding of where your critical data resides, where data will be restored and whether you have sufficient resources to support disaster recovery
• Gain the consensus of key stakeholders for optimizing cost, technology and risk within the disaster recovery environment
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Workshop Elements
Representative Workshop Agenda and Outcomes
APPROACH
PREPARATION
• An intensive, interactive session to assess and evaluate the impact of disaster recovery on your business, with real-time analysis, recommendations and deliverables
The focus of the workshop is to understand the appli cations and data at risk, current recovery capabilities, data centers and site connectivity. It is important that individuals responsible for these areas attend. At a minimum, a sample workshop team should include:
• The session evaluates current recovery capabilities, presents design options, discusses right-sizing the environment and begins the first stages of building a business-directed disaster recovery capability OUTCOME
• Rapid assessment of corporate alignment between business requirements and disaster recovery capabilities
• Executive sponsor • Data protection lead • Business continuity/disaster recovery lead • Storage lead • Networking lead
• Global examination of business data, corporate impact of disaster and data center capabilities
• Any applicable or specific business owners or application team leads
• A plan to build a new disaster recovery capability or augment an existing plan to close gaps and eliminate risk
AGENDA
PARTICIPANTS
• Your key business and IT leaders • Commvault industry experts and consultants LOCATION
In person, at a mutually agreed upon location DURATION
• Confirm goals, risks, critical success factors • Build a site map of data centers • Profile data center resources and capabilities with respect to data residency and disaster recovery • Evaluate key business application requirements, capacities and sizing information • Conduct a whiteboard session, describing data protection and disaster recovery options
INFORMATION REQUIRED
• Identify next-step action items (e.g., complete sizing information, list of equipment needed, services requirements and proposal pricing)
• Essential business requirements for disaster recovery, prior to workshop
• Set a timeline and plan for acquiring, designing, implementing and managing disaster recovery
Typically 4 hours
• IT environmental details, including data capacities, prior to the workshop • Executive input, direction and engagement, during workshop • Knowledge of applications and business function criticality
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