What it is
Disaster simulations and DR tests check whether your company can restore operations after a serious failure, such as the loss of a data centre, storage or network. We run planned failover tests in the live environment, restore data from backups and measure how long it takes for systems to run again. The tests check people as well as technology: whether procedures are current, whether those responsible know their tasks and whether communication works as planned. We plan the tests so that the risk to production stays under control.
What you get
- Proven readiness: you know that recovery actually works instead of assuming it does.
- Measured recovery times: the actual recovery time and data loss, compared with your targets.
- Current procedures: the DR plan is refined after every test.
- A prepared team: staff practise their roles under controlled conditions, not for the first time in a real crisis.
How we work
- Choosing scenarios: together we identify critical systems, recovery targets and the scenarios to test.
- Planning: we prepare the test plan, timing, rollback path and communication procedure.
- Simulation: we perform failover and recovery in the live environment and record timings and deviations.
- Analysis and improvement: we prepare a report, update the DR plan and agree on the next test.