Tag Archives: Business Continuity
Why You Can’t Survive without a Disaster Recovery Plan
It’s simple: Businesses that suffer data losses usually fail as a result.
That’s according to a study by the Department for Trade and Industry, which found that 70 percent of small businesses suffering a major data loss are out of business within 18 months.
What this means is most small businesses have failed to protect themselves from [...]
Evaluating your backup solution
You can’t have a disaster recovery plan until you first have a good backup solution. Is your backup solution good—or just good enough?
The traditional backup process is done to tape – which has a number of limitations including high cost (particularly as capacity increases), difficult upgrades, degradation over time, and slow backup and restoration.
Over the [...]
Is Your Disaster Recovery Plan Up To Date?
Businesses are constantly changing. Is your disaster recovery plan changing, too? It should be.
Every company can experience a business-altering event at any time: floods, explosions, accidents, computer malfunctions—the list is endless.
If you have a disaster recovery plan, you’re prepared to prevent such events from disrupting your normal operations—or at least you were at the time [...]
Business Continuity Planning: Your Business May Depend on It
With the start of a new year, businesses commonly implement changes and launch new initiatives that have ramifications for your IT environment. Ignore them at your own peril.
Chief among your IT considerations should be a Business Continuity Plan, or BCP, which will allow your business to resume normal operations in the event of a significant [...]
Business Impact of a Major Data Loss Event
Data breaches are costing companies more than ever, according to a recent study—and smaller companies may be most at risk.
Data losses, which can result from theft or carelessness, are a downside of the information age. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), more than 35 million data records were breached in 2008 in the [...]
Disaster Recovery—An Increasingly Important Aspect of Your Business