Is Your Disaster Recovery Plan On Your Mind? ? Redefining - Blog

Watching the satellite images of Hurricane Isaac churn over the Gulf Coast stirs up memories of Katrina?the destruction, the loss, the clean up, and the failures. As our thoughts are, of course, again with the people of the region and we hope for the best for their safety, it is quite apparent that the preparation and execution of evacuation plans is much better than it was seven year ago. But, does this include businesses? Are they more prepared with business continuity plans? Are the disaster recovery plans they havee put in place working? Most importantly though, if a natural disaster stuck where your business is, are you prepared?

Though Hurricane Isaac is a good reminder that you need a disaster recovery plan, you shouldn?t wait until you are looking into the eye of the storm to get started, which unfortunately is all too common. In an article about Hurricane Issac and disaster recovery, Technorati shared some interesting facts including that ?less than 40 percent of small to mid-sized businesses use any kind of cloud data storage,? and that ?70 percent of small firms that have a major data loss go out of business within a year.?

Throughout the history of this blog, we have often posted about about disaster recovery / business continuity planning for businesses, but looking back, it is typically after news of a natural disaster somewhere in the world. As experts in the field, this is a mistake on our part because we know it needs to be thought about on a regular basis ? whether mother nature hits or not. We are willing to rectify this as long as you in the business community are willing to listen and consider questions like these:

• What level of disaster recovery does your business need?
• What problems would a natural disaster present to your business?
• How can you mitigate these risks?
• If you can?t open your office for a day, a week, a month, or more, what does that mean for your bottom line?
• Are the alternative ways to operate?
• Is your data backed up?
• Can your systems be run offsite?

Planning for a disaster means understanding the balance between not being able to operate your business and the cost of a disaster recovery plan.? At a basic level, your plan should be designed so that your organization can ?weather the storm.?

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