With reliance on Information Technology for everyday operations of business critical functions, and at the magnitude it’s been replacing other non IT sectors of the business operations, protecting organizations data and IT infrastructure against any disruptive situations has become of paramount importance. Coupled with business operations reaching 24x7 and heightened regulatory compliance levels, there is a visible growing importance to it as a business priority in recent years.

A proper business continuity plan for any organization works more or less like an insurance as benefits can be appreciated only when a disruptive incident takes place. In today’s unpredictable world when anything can happen without warning, it’s prudent to have a realistic Disaster Recovery Plan in place that is tested and can be exercised for ensuring smooth operation of the business during any eventualities.

Services
ASPGulf with its current operational platform can offer end-to-end services for Disaster Recovery-the technology side of BCP plan so that business mission critical application and data is least affected due to any sort of disaster, be it nature driven or manmade.

ASPGulf’s unique BCS/DR service has following key offerings:

• Advisory services
  ASPGulf offers advisory and consultation services for evaluating and envisaging a proper Disaster Recovery Plan that is unique and apt to your organization requirements. Our DR specialists can sit with various stake holders to individually review and understand the business dependency to each and every application, its data and the underlying infrastructure on which it’s deployed. Project owners are briefed on various intricacies that can influence their applications during diverse disruptive scenarios and how it can affect the operations of the organization. This entire process runs through various stages but not restricted to Risk Assessment, Business Impact Analysis, Recovery Plan etc
  
  As a consequence to this meticulously done exercise, we submit our Disaster Recovery plan for the organization which is realistic, practical as it can be tested and very importantly cost effective.
  
  

• Architecting the DR infrastructure
  After determining the RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) parameters, we can architect an optimal infrastructure of the Disaster Recovery Site based on the usage loading during the declared window. This is done thorough analysis of the production environment, application compatibility studies, identifying mission critical processes etc
  
  
• DR Site (data center space)
  ASPGulf can provide Data Centre space with related infrastructure that is required to operate a DR site. With multiple DC footprints within UAE, by engaging with ASPGulf you chance to benefit by choosing the DR site location depending on proximity of production site. On selected operating platforms, ASPGulf can even offer the DR infrastructure which constitute of Servers, Software and replication technology etc to deploy and replicate application and data.