Disaster Recovery involves a set of policies and procedures to enable the recovery or continuation of vital technology infrastructure and systems following a disruption. Unitrends BC/DR Link is a free online tool from Unitrends designed to assist companies put together a DR plan. 
 
BC/DR Link provides users with step-by-step instructions for building a robust disaster recovery plan based on the latest industry standards and best practices. It includes 1 Gigabyte of centralized storage in the Unitrends cloud, which companies can use to house essential disaster recovery and business continuity documents, such as evacuation plans and emergency contacts. In the event of a disaster or outage, employees can access these materials remotely from a mobile device or computer, enabling them to function as a well-orchestrated team.
 
"For the first time, companies worldwide can now put together a sophisticated DR plan online free of charge, store it in the cloud, and take advantage of best practices and industry standards to test, update and share it in the event of disaster," said Paul Kirvan, FBCI, CISA, an independent BC consultant who assisted Unitrends in the development of BC/DR Link. "Comparable services require days of effort and cost thousands of dollars to develop. BC/DR Link is easy to set up and manage, and it's free - forever."
 
According to the Disaster Recovery Preparedness Council’s 2014 Preparedness Benchmark Survey, more than 60 percent of respondents do not have a fully documented disaster recovery plan. BC/DR Link solves a major business problem by equipping companies that don’t have the time, staff or budget to address disaster recovery with an easy, automated and cost-effective way to do so.
 
Companies looking for increased storage in the cloud and white glove disaster recovery service can leverage Unitrends’ new hybrid cloud Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offering, which utilizes the company’s proven ReliableDR, Unitrends Enterprise Backup and Unitrends Bridge technologies. Unitrends’ DRaaS provides recovery services for business continuity and protection of heterogeneous virtual and physical infrastructure and applications.