Back-up Your Back-ups

It happens, sooner or later a server or a business critical desktop with valuable data will fail, and when it does, the measures you've taken for a quick and seamless recovery will determine if your business suffers minimal losses, or falls apart. The latter is not pleasant, it's expensive, time consuming, and accompanied by revenue loss and the potential legal liabilities.

It can take months or even years for a business that has lost massive quantities of data to rebuild their databases, and oftentimes only a portion is ever recovered.

According to a survey conducted by researchers at UK-based Chartered Management Institute, less than half of 750 companies surveyed have disaster recovery and business continuity strategies in place.

The U.S. Small Business Administration says:

Small business owners invest a tremendous about of time, money and resources to make their ventures successful, and yet, while the importance of emergency planning may seem self-evident, it may get put on the back burner in the face of more immediate concerns. For small business owners, being prepared can mean staying in business following a disaster.

Don't Let Data Loss Put You Out of Business

The consequences of not being prepared can mean more than data loss; it can mean loss of your property, business, job, and economic wellbeing.

The Experts All Agree:

"A company that experiences a computer outage lasting more than 10 days will never fully recover financially. 50 percent will be out of business within five years." ¹

"70 percent of small firms that experience a major data loss go out of businesses within a year."²

• Is Your Small Business Prepared?
• If You Do Have A Disaster Recovery Plan - Has It Been Tested?

Disasters do happen and can happen to anyone. My computer could crash as I'm composing this entry. Accepting the precept that it can happen to anyone is the beginning of good preparation.

If you don't have a disaster recovery plan in place, we can help you formulate one and implement it, and if you do have a disaster plan but have never tested it and wish to, we can do that too.

We have many resources available to help small businesses make proper preparations.

Give us a call and we'll happily review your business needs and begin preparing for the inevitable.

UplinkSpyder
(541) 513-8173

¹Jon Toigo, Disaster Recovery Planning: Managing Risk and Catastrophe in Information Systems, (Yourdon Press, 1989)

²Contingency Planning, Strategic Research Corp and DTI/Price Waterhouse Coopers (2004) and is widely quoted in places such as: Diana Sheptone, National data awareness project launched to help businesses prevent data disasters (Data Centre Solutions Jan. 8, 2007)