Wednesday, April 25, 2012

How to avoid business down-time by implementing a disaster recovery strategy

By Jessica Brown


If you rely on computer systems in order to run your business, you should make a real effort to safeguard them, prevent major system failures and the loss of data. However, there are some things that are out of your control, such as natural disasters for example.

Your computer systems, along with your business premises, can be completely destroyed by earthquakes, floods or fires. Your insurance cover may reimburse you for the loss of buildings or equipment, but what about the data you may lose due to such a disaster? There is no amount of money that can reimburse you for this kind of loss.

It is likely that if your business is seriously damaged by the effects of a natural disaster or another kind of disaster (personal or man-induced), it will be unable to function properly again for at least a period of a few days.

Unless you have a fast and effective strategy in place to recover data and restore your systems, you will have to wait for several days for new systems to be ordered, installed and activated.

You shouldn't underestimate just how damaging even a day or two of downtime can be for your company. In addition to harming your reputation amongst customers, who may suffer from poor service as a result of the system failure, you could also lose a considerable amount of money. If you can't run your business as normal, you can't make money.

So, what is the solution? There are companies that specialise in IT disaster recovery services, which use daily snapshots of your systems taken and stored on virtual servers to restore everything and recover your data. This can be done within minutes, so you avoid any downtime.




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