Next to your employees, your company's data is your most valuable asset. Ensuring information availability, protection of corporate data and proper information management is an essential business process often taken for granted. STI’s consultants will evaluate your current backup environment and make recommendations for improvements as well as design and implement the solution.
An STI designed and customized Backup Solution will ensure that your data will be secure against unplanned outages.
If your organization has remote offices, speak with an STI consultant about our remote backup and data vaulting solutions. STI in conjunction with our business partners will design a solution utilizing the latest distance data management technologies.
- Provides safe and efficient backup and record of ever-increasing volumes of data
- Ensures that appropriate system backups for the entire enterprise are performed at the desired intervals
- Automates tasks such as scheduling, tape management and off-site disaster media storage from a central management console
- Provides backup in environments of heterogeneous platforms, rapidly expanding networks and decentralized data
- Reduces administrative costs and staff requirements
- Increases the speed of backups and restores to minimize downtime and meet your backup window
STI's comprehensive Enterprise Backup & Recovery Solution will include the following:
- Complete Assessment of Infrastructure
- Storage Design and Implementation
- Backup Software Installation
- Backup Agent Installation
- Configuration of Agents and Backup Software
- Policy Development
- Documentation and Training
An STI consultant will be happy to assist your organization in developing a comprehensive back up solution to ensure data availability that meets your committed service levels.
Read more about our Custom Backup/Disaster Recovery System Here.
STI has been building Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) for our clients since 1989. STI will assist with your BC/DR planning by conducting a BC/DR assessment. This assessment will identify the critical business systems and applications, application dependencies, time to recovery objectives (TTR) and service level agreements in place today. A gap analysis is conducted identifying areas of improvement along with a series of recommendations to meet the stated business goals.
STI is guided by your business objectives and works with you to best understand your specific industry and markets. We typically perform a Diagnostic Assessment of your business during which we focus on several different areas.
- Business Processes
- Functional Requirements
- Operational Considerations and Constraints
- Financial Resources
- Regulatory Compliance
- Systems Reliability
- Data Integrity
- Information Security
- Organization
- Human Resources and Culture
Our approach to developing the optimal Data Management solution for your institution consists of these major activities:
- Vulnerability Analysis
- Identification of vulnerabilities to significant service interruptions
- Definition of preventive measures that may be taken to minimize the probability and impact of such interruptions, focused on quick hits
- Business Interruption Impact Assessment
- Determination of the impact of these exposures (to interruptions of normal operations)
- This activity relies heavily on the involvement of senior management to identify financial/economic, regulatory, legal, and operational implications of an extended service interruption
- Gap Analysis
Identification of business costs and quantitative analysis of deficiencies needed to be corrected, so as to be able to:
- Prioritize business resumption strategies
- Minimize the potential occurrence and impact of a loss of service
- Design of Support Strategies
- Identification and evaluation of alternatives and recommendations for the most cost-effective approach consistent with these business priorities
- Development of a corrective action plan reflecting the above priorities, to address the exposures identified
Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is a collection of management processes designed to provide organizational persistence during and following a business disaster.
A BCP combines a variety of unique skills encompassing project and crisis management. These skills involve preparing the business for resumption as well as the implementation of methods for uninterrupted business performance.
In the interests of stakeholders, employees, and senior level management, business continuity should be employed to preserve all business processes, warding off any chance for business cessation. By implementing compensating controls, you have a better determination of the outcome of a disaster.
When disaster strikes, your Business Continuity Plan drives and shapes how your organization behaves by defining how resources are used to control and restore order, preserving both intangible as well as tangible values.