DISASTER RECOVERY & BUSINESS CONTINUITY

What Is The GRID? The GRID Is Additional Safety, Security, & Service for Our Customers: A Freestanding Network Operation Center With Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Workspace Located Over 100 Miles Inland From Gulf Coast Storms Situated Outside of 100 Year Flood Zone Providing Redundant of Operating Systems Infrastructure Located at Furthest Point North of Gulf Coast off I-10 Baton Rouge, Louisiana Hardware / Software / Network Administration & Telecom Support For Critical Connectivity

Disaster Preparedness

Phase I – Information Gathering

1. Organize the Project Who will be running the project? When does it need to be done? What tasks are involved? What are the objectives and scope of the plan?

2. Conduct Business Impact Analysis What are the most critical functions or systems in your business/unit? What would be the impact if they were severely interrupted? How long can you manually operate accounting, customer service, sales, etc, if your system is down?

3. Conduct Risk Assessment Where is the critical system or function performed? What is the probability of this area being severely interrupted?

4. Develop Recovery Strategy How will you operate during a severe disruption to insure all critical functions can be performed? How will you get your business/unit back up and running?

5. Review Onsite and Offsite Backup / Recovery Procedures Are you backing up critical information and systems? Where are the backups located? Will they be affected if a fire or flood occurs in your building?

6. Select Alternate Facility Do you have a location to perform work in the event your facility is destroyed? Phase II – Writing and Testing the Plan

7. Develop Recovery Plan Documentation of all components and steps from recognizing a disaster, to performing during recovery, to restoration are compiled.

8. Test the Plan Does the plan work? Are all contact numbers listed and critical areas detailed? Phase III – Maintaining and Auditing the Plan (Ongoing)

9. Maintain the Plan When changes occur in the work force, system, equipment, or process the plan needs to be updated to reflect these changes.

10. Perform Periodic Audit Have someone outside of your unit review and assess your plan.

DISASTER RECOVERY & BUSINESS CONTINUITY

What level of service will you need?

Alternative Workspace


In a Secure Environment First, preplan a work environment with internet connectivity and phones, which is far enough away from the area affected, but close enough that it does not require air travel, can be extremely important. For the Gulf Coast area, we have facilities that can be pre-assigned to accommodate clients from Tallahassee to Houston. Our Disaster Recovery Center is adjacent to our 24x7 Data Center in our Baton Rouge facility.

Providing 24x7 Data Center Infrastructure Some level of equipment redundancy will be required. GSTS has the ability to design and deploy any type of equipment necessary to keep your business running, from our data center with redundant power and HVAC. GSTS sells and services equipment and backup for Hot, Warm, or Cold storage based on your operating requirements and budget.

Redundant Power

Two Generac 400kw generators provide backup power during any power outage whether it is from a hurricane or afternoon thunderstorm.

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