Disaster Recovery for Business-Critical Applications

The challenge

Several business-critical applications depended on a small number of on-premise systems. Backups existed, but recovery responsibilities, alternate infrastructure and restoration sequence were not clearly defined if the primary environment became unavailable.

Our approach

Astek worked backwards from business priorities: which applications had to return first, what data they depended on, how users would reconnect, and what infrastructure had to be available before application recovery could begin.

What Astek implemented

• Classified applications by recovery priority and dependency.
• Reviewed backup copies, retention and recovery locations.
• Designed an alternate recovery environment for critical workloads.
• Planned connectivity, access and DNS considerations for a recovery event.
• Documented recovery sequence and responsibilities.
• Conducted a controlled recovery exercise to validate assumptions.

Business outcome

Management gained a clearer disaster-recovery plan tied to application priorities rather than only infrastructure components. The organisation could identify remaining gaps and improve recovery readiness in planned stages.