Business Continuity and Data Recovery

Disaster Recovery Plans, the rarely thought about, underappreciated child of the technology infrastructure.

There is not a single business owner or manager who cares about data backup.  Not a single one.  However, every single owner out there and every single manager has sweated once or twice about data recovery…

The Cold Truth.  If your company experiences a site wide data loss or disaster scenario, fifty percent of the time that company will not bounce back and be dead within a year.  Five years from a disaster, 90% of those companies are no longer in business.  Data is critical.  Imagine the catastrophic nature of replacing an entire infrastructure due to a site wide disaster.  Servers, workstations and network devices have to be procured, installed, and configured for your operations to get back up. Imagine the time, energy and money it would take to replace an infrastructure.

Now imagine your entire site is perfectly fine but the hard drive or array where your critical data is stored goes down.  Unrecoverable.  All the money in the world cannot recreate that data.  Those contacts, transactions, plans, processes and accounts are gone.  Those site wide disasters don’t come around very often but losing a single critical server or data vault can occur without warning and cripple your business.

Every company should have a Disaster Recovery plan in place to ensure that their infrastructure is redundant and replaceable.  Technology partners like Chess can work with companies to go beyond selling them a box to duplicate their data on.  Your technology partner can help your company devise strategies to weather any disaster scenario that rears its head at your company.  Ensure that plans are in place to:

• Protect your critical business data
• Ensure business operation continuity in spite of downed infrastructure components
• Retain technology operation amongst personnel or property disaster.

If your company has a fire evacuation plan (which you do), why wouldn’t you have a disaster recovery plan to ensure that your business stays operational regardless of the disaster?