Computing Systems
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan
What is it?
A Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) is the description of employees’ activities when disaster strikes. The DRP mitigates disaster consequences and allows for the control and recovery of business-critical operations as quickly as possible in the case of a disaster.
Business Continuity Planning (BCP) comprises a range of activities that are carried out in order to prevent the disruption of business-critical applications.
CROC’s Services
CROC’s individual DRP and BCP solutions are based upon deep analysis of each customer's business processes. The characteristics of each solution depend on the type of business the customer is involved in as well as the existing processes and security levels.
Disaster Recovery Planning includes:
- Evaluation of business operations and identification of correlation between assets
- Analysis of client's vulnerability in all fields
- Business impact analysis (with regard to client's operations at all levels)
- Elaboration of short- and long-term DRPs
- Testing, maintenance, and updating of DRP in line with client's business growth
CROC's Business Continuity projects comply with all relevant standards. CROC is a partner of the British Standards Institution (BSI) and employs two BS25999 certified auditors. As a result, CROC is well placed to prepare clients for meeting BS25999 certification.
Case Studies: Disaster Recovery Plan for MTS
Integrated Business Continuity Project for Alfa-Bank
Data Center Outsourcing and Cloud Computing
What is it?
Cloud computing is a type of data processing in which all computing resources can be used as a common pool. Key advantages of this approach include: higher system utilization and fault tolerance, reduction in time required for deployment of new computing environments, lower IT ownership cost, greater simplicity, and increased unification and manageability of IT resources.
CROC’s Services
When implementing a cloud computing infrastructure, CROC offers its outsourced data center's virtual platforms as a public cloud, thereby allowing for the adjustment of storage and computing system capacity depending on the customer's needs. In addition, the customer only pays for the resources that it uses. This solution is particularly beneficial to companies that experience fluctuations in computing capacity and storage volume demand.
CROC also offers private cloud computing solutions–providing higher data confidentiality and protection, improved system utilization, and considerable OPEX savings.
Data Archiving Systems, Deduplication, and Thin Provisioning
What is it?
Data archiving systems are used to create long-term copies of large corporate data arrays (with optional access to this data).
Data deduplication is a backup and recovery optimization solution for systems and applications. Deduplication solutions reduce data storage and transfer costs, allow for data division (into slices of any size), protect data integrity, help to avoid hashing-related collisions, and simplify disaster recovery.
Thin provisioning is a disk array-based technology that improves the efficiency and dynamic allocation of space among applications and ensures maximum utilization of resources.
CROC’s Services
CROC uses an integrated data storage systems optimization approach in order to reduce corporate information storage expenses, improve flexibility, and enrich the functionality of storage systems. In order to identify client needs and infrastructure specifications, CROC conducts a comprehensive client audit and offers systems optimization guidelines. CROC is experienced in the detailed evaluation of client data storage environments and guarantees a high return on data storage optimization investments. CROC helps clients to implement all required optimization solutions based on archiving, deduplication, and thin provisioning technologies.
