But how do you ensure that this is the case? If you have a plan, do you know that it will all work? Do you audit it, and if so, how? Equally fundamentally, do you know what your resource/service dependencies are and what their time criticalities are?

To determine and ensure all of this, NetMagic professionals have the expertise, the knowledge and the tools required to design, implement and manage business continuity plans for organizations. We assist in ensuring continuity in the face or disaster or serious incident.

The different services include -

Business Impact and Risk Analysis

Risk analysis is inextricably linked with disaster recovery. Assessment of the risks which may lead to disaster is essential in the determination of what controls are appropriate to the situation. The first step is to consider the potential impacts of each type of disaster or event. This is critical - as a disaster recovery plan can be feasible only if the likely impacts of the disaster on business/organization are known. Having determined the impacts, it is also equally important to consider the magnitude of the risks, which could result in these impacts. Again, this is a critical activity - it will determine which scenarios are most likely to occur and which should attract most attention during the planning process.

NetMagic professionals have the knowledge to document and analyse various business disruption scenarios and will work with the customer to assess the risk involved.

Creating a Disaster Recovery Plan

NetMagic will assist in the creation of a sound disaster recovery / business continuity plan which is essential to protect the well being of an organization and ensure that it stays in business. This will detail processes, people, infrastructure and costs needed to implement a effective disaster Recovery along with Disaster Recovery policies.

Disaster recovery Policies underpins an organizations whole approach to contingency and disaster recovery. They determine the fundamental practices and culture throughout the enterprise and are usually linked closely with information security policies; both address the basic defense requirements to ensure the stability and continuity of the organization. It is essential that policies are defined, exist, and are up to date, comprehensive in their coverage. Policies need to be in compliance with standards like ISO17799

Contingency audit and plan assurance

Having created the recovery/continuity plan, it is important to ensure that it remains up to date and workable. Equally, it is essential to monitor contingency practices on the ground to ensure that they are appropriate. Herein NetMagic's expertise helps in converting the plans to detailed procedures and processes that can be implemented effectively across the organization.

Implementing the Plan

This involves choosing right vendors and implementation of processes, policies and infrastructure as per disaster recovery plan. NetMagic will also help you in the integration and management of the different applications and network elements that are needed to ensure business continuity.

Normally, if you are running any kind of mission critical applications, the answer to this question is that you cant afford to lose any data at all. No company can. However, it is still possible to function with marginally impaired data, but for no more than a short period of time. NetMagic works with clients to determine

		How much degradation in performance is acceptable to a company during a disaster?
		Are the current resources sufficient to avert, or tackle a disaster?
		How much Downtime constitutes a Disaster?
		How much Data can you afford to lose, if any?
		When should your Disaster Recovery Plan be in place?