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Dirik Hameed
The need for a disaster recovery plan in any business large or small, cannot be gained said. Disasters can befall a business at any time and the causes are numerous, ranging from natural causes to terrorist activities. Daily the businesses that decide on colocation face the risk of loosing vital data. The consequences of such data loss are immeasurable and can even cause business closure depending on the extent of the loss and the nature of the business. For example, think about the loss of data for an internet store that could lead their website to be offline for a long time. This and many other possibilities face businesses that opt for collocation services for their websites. A disaster recovery plan is a group of procedures and put in place processes that are supposed to make sure that vital resources that are needed for central business functions are kept and backed up. Disaster recovery plans should cover all areas of the business from human resources to data management. Businesses that use server colocation services need to put their concentration on disaster recovery plans for their data. The first step in disaster recovery in colocation services is prevention of data loss and prevention of the disaster where possible. Prevention will include physical security checks and clearance, training of personnel on disaster recovery and having back up systems for your data. Preventing tragedy procedures will assist the business pull through fast and with fewer interruptions to vital operations. Guarantying stability through out a calamity is the next step for a disaster recovery plan for users of colocation services. No matter the reason or scope of the damage caused, a business should go on with its central business to avoid more losses. The truth is that this is the reason as to why disaster recovery plans for collocation users are called business continuity plans. This means that backup data and other resources such as working space/area must be in place to enable the core functions of the business to continue uninterrupted. Businesses using colocation can choose between having a hot site or cold site for their business continuity during a disaster. A hot site means a safe building that contains resources like servers, data backup storage, other office equipment and sometimes food and clothing that will be used in case of a tragedy. Nevertheless, a cold site is a safe building ready to be installed but has vital resources that employees can move in and put their equipment in place incase there of a tragedy. Colocation service users must also have a recovery mechanism. Following the tragedy, significant data resources and other resources vital to the operation of the business are supposed to be put back. This is supposed to put the business back to its usual running and performance levels. Following a calamity and depending on the scope of damage to the colocation user's operation reinstatement may consist of getting other working places and machines. Also, it could mean only putting back crucial data lost through a security breach on the internet.
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