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Business Continuity/Disaster
Recovery
Did you know?
So, what can you do to minimize your company's computer downtime?
 Make sure your company has
invested in high quality, reliable equipment and software including
operating systems.
Be sure that your critical
data is backed up routinely.
Implement a preventative
maintenance plan and a disaster recovery plan.
93% of companies that lost their data center
for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy
within one year of the disaster.
(Source: National Archives & Records Administration in
Washington)
50% of businesses that found themselves without
data management for this same time period filed for
bankruptcy immediately.
(Source: National Archives & Records Administration in
Washington)
In a 2001 Cost of Down Time Survey:
- 46% said each hour
of downtime would cost their companies up to $50k
- 28% said each hour would cost between $51k and $250k
- 18% said each hour would cost between
$251k and $1 million
- 8% said it
would cost their companies more than $1 million per hour.
(Source: Ontrack - 2001 Cost of Downtime Survey Results,
2001.)
Following a
thorough Risk Assessment,
we will take that information and create a viable Business
Continuity or Disaster Recovery Plan specifically suited to
your business to help minimize your company's downtime in
the event of a disruption. A sound Disaster Recovery Plan
will help alleviate your
concerns of losing
your information.
Disruptions addressed by a
disaster recovery plan may be minor, or may include instances where normal
functioning and services cannot be performed. A disruption may be
momentary, or may result in a corporate computer network being off-line for
an extended period of time.
Time is money.
The purpose of a business continuity plan is to help keep
your company running in the event of a disruption and to
minimize the amount of downtime and overall loss of
productivity. It is imperative to be proactive when it
comes protecting your company. In the long run, it
could mean the difference between a company that fails and
one that thrives.
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