Any Disaster Recovery strategy begins with the design of a comprehensive plan covering the risks, accepted impact and the solution portfolio to manage those risks. In the case of healthcare, the main risks to address in DR would be data loss, data breach and system downtime.
Once the plan is in place, it’s time to implement the tools that ensure you can recover quickly in case of a disaster. Those tools generally include backup solutions, redundant infrastructure and available personnel able to execute the plan when needed. One of the most common tools for fast DR is what is called offsite replication, this technology replicates you’re IT infrastructure in a data centre and acts as a failover point.
The third main pillar of any successful disaster recovery solution is the creation of relevant and easy to follow triage processes which your staff can follow in case of a disaster. The triage processes could include who to escalate the issue to or the steps to take when a cyber breach occurs. All those processes link into a successful disaster recovery strategy.
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We work with healthcare enterprises to design Disaster Recovery strategies that provide a holistic coverage of the main points of risk including hardware failure, data loss, data breach, network outages and staff changes.
Post strategy design, we work with the client and other partners to implement those strategies. They could include the upgrade of redundant fibre services, configuring of offsite backups or even staff training on DR events.
The final piece of a successful DR strategy is the ability to execute it when needed. Post the implementation phase, we design easy to follow triage processes and provide your team with the right training to execute the strategies should an event occur.
Implementing redundancies is one of the core pillars of any effective DR strategy. Redundancies in healthcare must cover ALL single point of failures. Those could include onsite servers, internet services for a cloud business or a single clinical database without backups.
Decommission your old server infrastructure and use world class Equinix data centre facilities to securely host your critical server infrastructure & data. Co-Location is the ability to use enterprise data centre resources to host your organisation’s server & data infrastructure. Co-Lo removes the risk of hardware failure at a business level.
By implementing infrastructure replication you are creating a backup server/data unit should your existing server or data fail. Imagine you’re onsite servers fail, with the replication strategy in place, you can switch to the secondary replicated servers in no time and continue working. This will give you enough time to fix any hardware outages.
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