Interruptions – no matter what scale of magnitude – are disruptive for businesses. Disaster recovery is extremely business-critical consideration for small, medium and large businesses. Of course, a mere ‘downtime’, ‘hiccup’, or ‘temporary problem’ for a large company might be devastating for a small or medium size company. Disasters – not that you don’t know this already – come without a warning.
How does ‘disaster’ happen?
In one word: no one ever knows. While IDC calls it ‘IT Risk’, we think it is ‘business risk’. Business interruptions could come from any number of sources while the natural ones would be floods, storms, and other natural disasters. There could be many more forms of business interruptions such as the following:
• Accidents involving software or hardware damage.
• Security breaches such as DOS, DDOS, or hacking – all of which can lock your network down.
• Data theft, data loss or data mismanagement.
How to mitigate IT related Business risks?
Good Question. Our experience, coupled with industry research, points out that you can reduce about 85% of unplanned downtime using a combination of the right technology and best practices. Some of the best practices include a heavy, consistent use of the right management software and recommended tools (this alone can trim down network and system downtime by a whopping 65%); upgrading hardware such as the servers, network elements or equipment, storage systems, etc.
Of course, there are effective disaster recovery implementations and methods available that can help you put up multiple sites, data centers and congruent networks all of which run key business applications, store valuable data, etc. Not only does this helps you to reduce any likelihood of business outages, downtime but also helps save money, time and reduce considerable workload consolidation throughout your company.
New technologies, automation, use of expert disaster recovery consultants, advanced processes can all help you ease your backup, data management, and save on precious staff time or man-hours.
Preparedness pays off.
Disaster recovery strategy isn’t something a business develops after disaster strikes; it makes sense to develop it before it can cripple your business. We, at Network Pro, have been helping clients salvage their businesses from potentially disastrous events. We are confident that we can help formulate a robust plan to mitigate your IT risks.
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