White Papers for Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC)

Disaster Recovery and Virtualization for Companies Subject to Regulatory Compliance Standards

Ixilix

Many companies are subject to compliance standards such as Sarbanes-Oxley,PCI DSS for credit card transactions,HIPAA for healthcare data,or other types of regulations.These compliance obligations do not go away when recovering from a disaster.
Using a managed service provider (MSP)that is familiar with both new disaster recovery technologies and relevant compliance issues for major industry sectors can reduce cost and time to recovery in case of an unforseen event,while remaining in compliance with applicable legislation and regulations.

New techniques in virtualization combined with asynchronous data replication make disaster recovery systems an increasingly viable option for companies of all sizes. Using virtualization,companies can recover from a physical configuration at a primary site to a virtual configuration at a disaster recovery site. The obvious result is enormous cost-savings on capital xpenditure,while still adhering to disaster recovery best practices of one-to-one failover. In addition,several vendors have recently introduced the ability to replicate data asynchronously over standard IP networks.The advantage of this technique is that not only are equipment costs much lower than for synchronous replication,but the management of the network is much simpler,and the impact on production systems is generally less.

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