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Disaster recovery and business continuity both describe services that are vital to keeping you in business after an emergency. Which is better for your company? Businesses that don’t plan for disaster don’t last.Any number of unfortunate events can befall a business. Servers can crash without warning. Hackers can break through and destroy (or hold hostage) the data that is the lifeblood of a modern business. Natural disasters can wipe out not just data but the whole building. Recovering from disasters requires planning. Data backups are not a disaster recovery plan.Many businesses operate on the…
Being prepared for a potential disaster doesn’t just mean data backup. Planning effectively for disaster response is the key to Intelligent Business Continuity. You and I both know that downtime simply isn’t an option when you have tons of customers to serve and projects to complete at any given time. There are far more threats than you probably realize – from malware infections to natural disasters to human errors – that can lead to downtime. That’s why I want to offer you a better way to prepare yourself and protect your vital assets: Intelligent…
When you create a detailed business continuity plan, you can keep disaster from disrupting your operations. See how to get started here. When disaster strikes, disruptions to your operations could negatively impact your construction projects, pushing them past the deadline and over budget. And it is not just natural disasters you have to worry about, either. Everything from serious IT problems to the loss of important team members has the potential to wipe out your operations. That is, unless you have a smart business continuity plan in place. With this plan, you can…
Disaster Recovery as a Service, or DRaaS, is essentially insurance against an IT catastrophe. It positions your organization to recover in a timely and predictable fashion when a disruption occurs by keeping a team of experts at your disposal. Advantages of DRaaS 1. Quick Recovery The downtime after suffering a disaster almost always puts an organization in a compromising position. Downtime not only means a pause in your income-generating activities, it may also lead to the loss of clients. After all, you can’t expect a consumer to not look for a different provider while…
Your business needn’t be sitting on a fault line or at the bottom of a flood zone to be vulnerable to data loss. Any number of calamities can do damage to your data—from huge, howling tornadoes to tiny, silent trojan horses. Even a perfectly healthy hard drive can just up and quit, if the mood strikes. A Kroll Ontrack study found that mundane, completely avoidable hard drive crashes are the leading cause of data loss, at 66{61194e7afa0946242429d3457858805d5d8e9f1e3c2fa6ff4cb841084e122ca3}. And since data is the lifeblood of just about any business these days, the effect of a…
Why do so many businesses have inadequate data backups? It’s actually pretty easy to understand. Backing up is boring. In fact, the whole point of backing up is to maintain a nice, boring shield around your data so nothing exciting ever happens to it, such as annihilation. Many companies get a rickety backup system in place—(tape? don’t be ridiculous)—and then ignore it. Why? Because it’s so easy to ignore! You’ve done something, so now you can think about other stuff. Years go by. Then, catastrophe happens. It’s exciting, sure—but not the good kind of…
The festive season is fast approaching, and it is a well-deserved opportunity to celebrate with friends and family. However, the joy of the holidays can quickly turn tragic if you are not careful. Emergency rooms visits and the number of calls to first responders see a sharp increase during the final few weeks of the year. It is possible to avoid a holiday disaster by following a few simple guidelines to help safeguard you and your family. Ways to Stay Safer During This Year’s Holidays Avoiding Decorating Disasters Inspect your holiday decorations before putting…
It’s early Saturday morning, before dawn, and your cell phone rings. Bleary-eyed, you answer: it’s one of your weekend workers. They came in early to get some reporting done, but the network is down. They’re getting a serious error message, and it looks like about half your servers are down. In a panic, you run to your laptop and sure enough, your website is now malfunctioning. What do you do? It’s something IT administrators worry about all the time: a network meltdown. They know it will probably happen someday, they just want to be…
