On-site solution for disaster recovery (DR)

There are two main benefits to a data on-site disaster recovery plan which include meeting recovery time objectives and protecting the security of the information which may be subject to compliance regulations.

On-site disaster recover plans should only be considered when the data is protected from a site natural disaster such as flood or fire. The ioSafe Protection Technology ensures that a hard drive protected by the program can withstand floods and fires at the stated rating. While the ratings vary by product, the technology is capable of providing up to one hour of fire protection up to 1,700° F and up to 30 days of flood protection completely immersed in up to 30 feet of fresh or salt water.

If your home or business is considering disaster proof products, having critical saved locally could significantly reduce your recovery time objective. The recovery time objective (RTO) is an industry term to express the amount of time required to have information available again after some disaster or outage. For some people this time may be expressed in days, but for other as little as hours or minutes. On-site disaster recovery using an ioSafe product provides full random access to your data just like any other disk drive and could be used as your primary source of information after a disaster. No time would be wasted retrieving files over a network connection or waiting for tapes to arrive from some remote storage location. With the information conveniently protected on-site, you may be ready to get back to business in minutes.

Depending on the type of information you are storing, there may be regulations controlling the information making offsite vaulting impractical. Healthcare information and credit card information are examples of types of information that require they are protected and secure. Keeping the information on-site prevents it form being lost or compromised and can be safely controlled in a secure area with limited access. But secure does not mean protected, and for that you need disaster protection, such as the protection provided by the ioSafe Protection Technology.