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Top 7 Tips For An Effective Disaster Recovery Plan

Bobby Varghese

Here’s a no-brainer – many companies rely on IT for their survival and they won’t be able to work if their system went down. If you think your company is one of them, then it’s important to have a proper Disaster Recovery (DR) plan in place so that you are able to reduce your downtime and get back online as quickly as possible.

Here are top 7 tips to help you implement an effective Disaster Recovery plan:

Identify your risks:
Identifying major security threats to your IT infrastructure can help you put procedures in place that will reduce the risk and determine the course of action needed for recovery.

Prioritize your activities:
Identify your most critical services and the order in which you want to restore them. This will help you create a recovery plan which will help minimize the effect of the disaster on your business.

Make a list of software details:
If you’re running different software programs in your business for different activities, make sure you have a complete list of applications you are using, their configuration settings, the contact details of the owners, and your contract details. This will help you remember the applications important for your business.

Create a response team:
This is an essential element of a DR Plan and includes personnel you will need to get your system back online. You can take help from your internal staff or can hire third party vendors to help you in this process.

Assess Recovery Procedures:
The top goal of every company is recovery and restoration of its data after the disaster. In order to collect and restore the data, the company must answer questions like where the data has been stored, who has access to the data, is the data secure, whether it can be recovered in case it’s lost and how to retrieve the data in case the company switches its users.

Keep your backup ready and waiting:
It is often said that business should never anticipate profits but should provide for all possible losses. Keep a backup of all your business resources on-site, off-site or on the Cloud so that you don’t have to worry about the data loss in case of a disaster.

Run and Test your plan:
Testing your plan is another important part of DR planning. No matter how well you’ve planned your recovery, actually implementing the process is always different from the way it was planned. Run the test plan and make the required tweaks for the final version of the DR plan.

When a disaster strikes, most of the companies suffer because of the absence of a proper Disaster Recovery Solution. Having a solid DR plan will help the businesses resume their operations after the minimum downtime and continue to provide good and reliable services to their customers and suppliers. Developing a DR plan can be time-consuming but the benefits heavily outweigh the costs should a disaster occur.

 

Sysfore can help you with a cost-efficient way to meet your disaster recovery objectives. You can write to us at info@sysfore.com or call us at +91-80-4110-5555.

Top 5 Applications of Machine 2 Machine Technology

Bobby Varghese

Machine 2 Machine (hereafter M2M) communication is an important part for Internet of Things (hereafter IoT) inspired world to become a reality. M2M technology is needed to create a common network of communication between all physical objects. These communications help the businesses in improving their processes, monitoring their assets and generating more revenues.

In this article, we’ll talk about some of the applications of Machine to Machine Technology. Read more →

Top 5 Benefits of Implementing Digital Asset Management

Bobby Varghese

Digital Asset Management (DAM) has been helping industries, like manufacturing, education, healthcare, beauty, etc. in optimizing their processes for product management, marketing, creative workflows and many other digital routines with extensive digital asset organization.

It also enables creative workflow automation, archival and backups, usage tracking, e-commerce and more.

 

But before we discuss how implementing Digital Asset Management benefits an enterprise, let us first understand what the terms Digital Asset and Digital Asset Management mean:

A Digital Asset is any text or media that is formatted into a binary source and includes the right to use it. These are categorized into textual content (which includes documents, presentations, etc.) and media assets (which includes images, videos, etc.).

Digital asset management (DAM) includes storing, organizing, finding, retrieving and sharing of digital assets from a centralized digital library which provides controlled access to peers, employees, clients, contractors and other key stakeholders of the organization.

 

Here are the top 5 benefits of implementing Digital Asset Management:

Improves Productivity: Digital Asset Management solutions can be integrated seamlessly with the tools already deployed within the organization which helps the companies to store and retrieve different types of media. This resolves content retrieval issues and improves enterprise productivity.

Increases Efficiency: Digital asset management software can provide companies with an effective search function that reduces the time spent in searching for a particular information. It also allows employees to use, reuse, and edit digital assets within the application which improves the operational efficiency.

Secure and Controlled Access: The Digital Asset Management software acts as a secured, single point access to all digital assets of an enterprise. The data is stored securely in the central repository of the companies and the companies can efficiently control employee permissions and access levels regarding the digital assets.

Version Control: With regular updates, it becomes difficult to track the latest versions of a digital asset. A Digital Asset Management solution automatically presents only the latest version of a digital asset to its users thereby strengthening version control.

Digital Asset Analytics: With the help of Digital Asset Management, an enterprise can get insights into the performance of each digital asset. They allow the users to see who is using an asset, where are they being published, and who is uploading assets into the DAM. The users can also find out more about what assets are being deleted, downloaded, viewed, shared and re-purposed.

 

Simply put, Digital Asset Management (DAM) allows you to organise your company’s digital assets in a way that makes them quick-to-find and easy to access. By implementing a proper DAM strategy, organizations will be able to increase their ROI and further improve their bottom line by focusing on important strategic business operations.