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Information technology is at the core of almost every organization today. The computer data is one of the invaluable assets for a company. Any computer related disaster can result in irreversible losses for the company. To avoid such disasters out of the blue most companies have a disaster recovery planning as a part of a business continuity planning. To over this important for every organization, you should plan a disaster recovery using with the help of disaster recovery tool. Disaster recovery tools are essentially a part of Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP). The DRP documents chalk out the plan of action prior to, during and following a disaster. The DRP helps a business to minimize its losses caused by a system crash and helps it to recover from a disaster in the shortest possible time by identifying critical systems, processes and methods for restoring the processes.

1. Acronis® True Image Echo™ Server for Windows
For disaster recovery and system migration in both physical and virtual environments, Acronis® True Image Echo Server for Windows delivers greater flexibility and value for SMBs and the Remote Office / Branch Office.

• Create an exact Windows server disk image, including the operating system, databases, and applications;
• Migrate your systems between any virtual and physical servers quickly and easily

2. UltraBac’s Image based disaster recovery
This image based disaster recovery technology works by taking scheduled snapshots of one or more disk partitions. These images are replica image of the partition frozen at a scheduled time. It ensures a good backup for the files which are open and in use. With the help of this disaster recovery tool the failed machine can be restored using minimum tool.  UltraBac offers two versions of disaster recovery tool -UBDR Pro for small to medium businesses and UBDR Gold for larger environments.

3. Living Disaster Recovery Planning System (LDRPS)
This is a business continuity software designed to offer disaster recovery planning. The LDRPS can also be hosted as Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that hosts Strohl Systems applications in the data center. Some of the key features in the LDRPS are customizable best-practices-based plan navigators, customizable reports, dependency maps and location resource management.

4. LBL ContingencyPro Software
This is a web-based browser software tool that provides the best practices for business continuity planning. It also includes hundreds of electronic tools guides, templates, and samples. This tool offers a proven methodology to recover from events of disaster.

5. TAMP DRS (Disaster recovery tool)
This tool creates and distributes business contingency plans that includes disaster recovery. It allows the user to manage and roll up documents,  developmental plans, inventory lists, spreadsheets,graphics and flowcharts into one plan. It is completely functional in a disaster afflicted environment.