Free Annual Tape Test. Over the years our clients have found this tangible benefit of their AS/400 disaster recovery plan invaluable. Sometimes protocols and systems indicate successful and complete backups of all critical applications and data, but when it comes to actual restoration on another iSeries or server problems are discovered. The tape test benefit is that many times it reveals errors that would have prevented total restoration in an actual disaster. The annual AS/400 tape test provides peace of mind to both our clients and to us as their partner, elevating the AS/400 Disaster Recovery plan from just a theory to an actual practiced solution.
Remote Testing: Synergistic AS/400 disaster recovery plans provide you the option and flexibility of remote testing. Simply send your tape(s) or DVD's to Synergistic's AS/400 testing facility and our engineers will completely load your data and provide you with private, secure, encrypted internet access to verify your test AS/400 backup test. The benefit of this is that you could you save your firm in travel expenses, not to mention saved time and productivity?
Plan Customization: Your Synergistic AS/400 disaster recovery plan may be customized to both expedite and simplify your recovery process. You may elect to have a dedicated router preconfigured and stored at our data center. The benefit here is that you'll save all that time configuring the router and instead already have a tunnel created between our data center and your facilities. You also may elect to have a dedicated communications line dropped into our facility our use one of ours. The benefit to both these features is that you may eliminate the connectivity restoration time trying to connect from the hot site AS/400 to your WAN or LAN.
Plan Flexibility: Synergistic's AS/400 disaster recovery solutions provide maximum flexibility. This flexibilty not only encompasses the hardware and communications, but the contract itself. Our contracts are flexible, easy to understand, and simplistic. The benefit to this is that you or your team will not have a hassle getting your solution implemented, nor will you in the future working with us.
No Heavy Backloading: Upon AS/400 disaster recovery declaration, many plans institute heavy back end fees, meaning once you declare a disaster, a daily charge as high as $6,000 a day. This adds up quickly and must be considered. Synergistic plans are structured with no fee upon declaration and no fee for the initial 10 day period and a low daily fee thereafter, less than 20% of many AS/400 hot site recovery plans. The benefit this fact is that your firm will not pay exorbitant fees is you do suffer a disaster.
Turn Key Solution: Synergistic AS/400 hot site recovery plans are turn key solutions. This means not only will a hot site and hardware be provided to you, but our staff of certified engineers to assist you in your planning and recovery. The benefit to this added value is that in the event of a disaster, you are not on your own. Our staff will automatically become an extended part of your staff and assist in your recovery process, saving you both time and money.
An ounce of prevention, is worth a pound of cure. -Benjamin Franklin