Disaster Recovery solutions

More and more businesses recognize the importance of having a Disaster Recovery Solution to react to a disaster or other serious events. Creation of a solid disaster recovery plan is the first critical step to ensuring that your business information will survive a disaster. If your business normal operation depends on your IT e-resources (e-mail, web, database), then you need a Disaster Recovery plan. Now is the best time to get started with the help of NWW. You can depend on NWW’s Disaster Recovery Services to maintain business operations when your business is adversely affected by events outside of your control.
NWW is a professional provider of managed web, e-mail and application Disaster Recovery Services for companies that rely on the Internet as a critical business operation. NWW’s customers rely on NWW's services to deploy secure, high performance backup eBusiness solutions.

Disaster Recovery Services from NWW

NWW’s Disaster Recovery Service provides immediate access to our state-of-the-art hosting facilities, including our enterprise-class data center, data backup/restore system, high-speed Internet connectivity, Information Security protection (Firewall, IDS), and backup power.Our Hot, Warm and Cold recovery procedures provide different levels of site protection against site failure to suit your business continuity requirement.

Business Continuity and Risk Management

The risk of adverse impact from unusual events can never be totally eliminated. Risk Management is the procedure to identify, analyze, control and minimize the loss and to find a balance between cost and protection. This process alsow refered to as Mitigating Risk----- to reduce the risk until it reaches a level that is acceptable to an organization.

Risk Analysis has two primary tasks-- the identification of risks and the cost/benefit justification the the protection countermeasures. It visulizes the consequences of disaster scenario on different operations and functions, due to a loss of availability of certain E-resources to company employee as well as company customers on the Internet.

Infrastructure Contingency analysis will discuss major issues; most likely scenarios, and review your contingency and disaster preparedness in technical details. This analysis will include IT Infrastructure redundancy level, business critical application contingency, application/database back up practices.

Dependency Analysisintended to perform a dependency and time criticality analysis of different IT resources. A good understanding of the dependency of your IT infrastructure helps to define a plan to react to a disaster or other serious event.


Hot DR Solution

NWW’s Hot DR solution provides an active-active mode and fully redundant configuration mirroring your production systems. With a Hot DR solution, all Operating System and Applications are in active mode all the time. System configuration, database and other content changes at our Recovery Site are continuously synchronized to mirror your mission-critical production environments. Your Hot DR Site can be used as a redundant load balancing site of your production, and at the same time, allows immediate recovery of system, data, and application functionality in the case of your production site failure. This service is designed for businesses that cannot tolerate any downtime in their mission-critical applications.

 

Warm DR Solution

With our Warm DR solution , production configuration and data content changes are periodically updated in the recovery site. The Warm DR servers are remained at hot standby mode until the failure of production triggers the activation of DR site. Although systems are not continuously mirrored, system and data synchronization occurs over a secure network, which enables you to promptly restore critical systems in the event of a disaster in a very short period time. A quarterly simulation recovery will be conducted to verify the activation procedure.

Cold DR Solution

For customers using our Cold DR service , we will allocate enough resources to ensure immediate configuration and data restore to bring up the site in our recovery center in case of the production site failure. The servers will be installed with proper operation systems with basic standard configuration, and ready to install customer applications and restore data.

The Cold DR solution will fully test the hardware/OS, backup/restore device compatibility to ensure a full support of customers’ applications and seamless data restore process. A quarterly simulation recovery will be conducted to verify the recovery procedure.

End-to-end Disaster Recovery Solution

NWW’s Disaster Recovery Service allows rapid implementation of your applications and becomes the active site when your primary sites fail. This suite of outsourced services is enabled by well-designed lead-edge architecture foundation.

High performance network infrastructure
 

NWW’s Disaster Recovery solution is built on a high performance and high availability network infrastructure. The network is built using the cutting edge technologies, including multilayer gigabit switching to provide enough throughput in our server farm. With many years of network design and implementation experience, our network is perfectly tuned to support the hosting environment.

State of art information security practice
 

Our group of highly trained security experts have designed and built multilayer security protections against Internet intruders, including:

Internet perimeter router filtering/policing

Stateful Internet firewall protection

IDS real-time intrusion detection alert and response

24x7 activity logging

Secure connection for content management or content synchronization

Proven content delivery loading balancing architecture
 

NWW’s network engineers have many years of enterprise class data center design and management experiences. Our Internet content delivery architecture uses high performance Cisco CSS 11000 Content Service Switch, which provides the best of class features such as, intelligent DNS, Geographic load balancing, application-aware content delivery, back-end server availability detection and metric-based server load balancing.

Data restore and data synchronization management
 

Our Disaster Recovery procedure supports many backup/restore solutions, including ArcServe and Veritas Backup Exec. The DR site content or database can be constantly synchronized with your production servers through dedicated line, ISDN dialup or Secure VPN connection.

Our technical qualifications

Designing and managing a sound business continuity and disaster recovery plan, is a complex undertaking, involving a large scope of expertise, from networking foundation, data security, to server/application/data recovery. With many years of technical consulting practice, NWW’s experienced engineers have designed enterprise class hosting infrastructures and have practiced many server recoveries using different backup/restore solutions. Our Disaster Recovery team includes the following expertise:

· Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE)

· Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP)

· Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE)

· Compaq Accredited System Engineer (ASE)

· IBM Professional Server Expert (PSE)

· HP Star Certified Systems Engineer (CSE)

· SUN certified UNIX Administrator

· Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA)

· Check point Certified Security Engineer (CCSE)