Control PC Damage With Persystent Disaster Recovery Solution

Before you start planning for disaster recovery, consider these questions:

• What does your technical support dispatch process look like?
• How are you supporting the mobile workforce?
• Can you control disaster recovery from a centralized location?

Preparing a separate strategy for PC Disaster Recovery is the optimal approach. It involves three steps.
 

Step 1:

Imaging if you are installing a master image but still need to manually provision or reimage PCs, you may want to consider a more modern imaging process. Ideally this would include scripting capabilities, automation, wizard-based installs and minimal setup on the server side. Ideally your organization's imaging solution should be flexible and network based.  In the event of a disaster, it will take more time to reimage every drive than to figure out what was on it. Unlike any other disaster recovery provider, Persystent Software solutions will restore degraded systems to a desired working state (including patches and software updates and the preservation of user settings) whether the PC is on or off the network, and even if the OS cannot engage. Compare Persystent Suite to Symantec Ghost. 

 

Step 2: Compliance & Policy Enforcement

The ongoing conundrum regarding compliance and policy enforcement is finding a solution that will satisfy end users while adhering to IT requirements. Most end users require control over their user settings and bookmarks and regular, painless updates on a PC that is reliable. IT requires the flexibility to manage and update many types of authorized PC images for onsite and mobile workers. In the event of a disaster, centralized management of PCs is ideal.

However, for effective PC disaster recovery, you should consider solutions that do not require a connection to the network and also allow IT administrators to give the user more flexibility on the machine. With Persystent Software solutions, you can inherently address security by authorizing policy at a set moment in time and have more confidence in its enforcement automatically.

Persystent Software solutions can identify and fix Operating System files, and remove potentially damaging malware, viruses, and unauthorized programs BEFORE the operating system loads. By simply rebooting the system, either automatically or on demand, Persystent Suite eliminates the need for manual PC reimaging while preserving user data and settings during the restoration process.
 

Step 3: PC Disaster Recovery

Disaster recovery for the operating environment and data should be handled differently for the most reliable results. When disaster strikes, the operating environment should be rapidly recovered so the end user has access to working applications. Data should be stored safely and separately, written to external devices protected from hard drive failures. Overall, the key advantage to business continuity is the speed of recovery. There are many restore technologies. Some require the OS to be loaded but don’t have the flexibility to save user data. With Persystent Software solutions, you get the best of both worlds: repair and recovery of the OS while leaving user data alone.

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