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Guidelines for Setting up Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Plans (BCP) Centers for IT / ITES SEZs
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....ion of technology infrastructure critical to a business organization after a natural or human-induced disaster occurs. Disaster recovery may be seen as a subset of business continuity. While business continuity involves planning for keeping all aspects of a business functioning in the midst of disruptive events, disaster recovery focuses on the IT or technology systems that support business functions. DR/BCP are essential for businesses today and more especially for IT/ITES businesses. Businesses with no DR/BCP systems i.e. no saved information, no documentation, no backup hardware, and no contingency plan are unable to put into place any recovery time objectives (RTO) which is the duration of time and a service level within which a busi....
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....er' the effect of such events should clearly be of "such a nature or magnitude as to be beyond the coping capacity" of the business enterprises of the affected area and it must have the effect of causing major hindrance or stoppage of work at the business unit. In addition IT sector can be adversely affected by major power outages, industrial sabotage, data theft, cyber attack etc. These events may also have a major disruptive effect of hindering the business activity of the IT/ITES unit or cause stoppage of work at the unit. 2. Movement of back up data on tapes/ storage devices from SEZs to locations outside the SEZ. Prevention and creating data backup is an integral part of the IT/ITES sectors DR/BCP strategy. The data is regular....
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....cation upon the occurrence of a disaster. If the DR/BCP location is within another SEZ / EOU the DC of such SEZ/EOU may also be consulted prior to issue of approval. b) While making an application to DC office, the list of sites identified for DR/BCP operations by the unit as well as the list of calamities / events which are covered under `disaster' must be stated and thereafter approved by the DC. c) A DR/BCP location will be provided with adequate infrastructure including tele communication links, administrative support systems, data back up and retrieval systems as well as seating/workstations for personnel. d) On the occurrence of events pre-defined under the category of 'disaster', the unit will not need to seek p....
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....ties overseas clients in India within SEZs. Such centres would be provided by the SEZ units. As in such cases the DR/BCP centre would constitute a space with adequate infrastructure including tele-communication links, administrative support systems, data back up and retrieval systems as well as seating/workstations for personnel, which will be activated/operatinalised in the event of a disaster. In addition to the guidelines put into place for setting up DRC/BCP Centres by SEZ Units as per para 3 above, this business model in SEZs calls for additional considerations which are as follows: a) This will be in the nature of a commercial activity as the SEZ unit offers end to end services to the third parties to keep in readiness and opera....