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Your business runs 365 days a year; your systems run 24/7. Your data is needed in real-time – all the time. To ensure business continuity and secure data protection a proactive approach is required to anticipate disasters of all types. Ask yourself: If downtime strikes, are your business systems intelligent?
You realize, no business is immune from downtime? All companies face the risk of something – natural or otherwise – being a detriment to day-to-day business operations.
One way to think about the threat of downtime is that is it not a question of if, but rather of when it will strike your business. Unfortunately, according to PriceWaterhouseCoopers, 70 percent of small businesses that experience a major data loss and suffer operational downtime will typically go out of business within one year.
Ask yourself: How long can your business be down?
- Seconds
- Minutes
- Hours
- Days
- Never???
Unplanned downtime may be viewed as an IT function, but it is an entire business concern. What is the cost of downtime? In some cases, all internal business processes will cease – everything from billing to human resources to your intranet to your ability to provide customer-centric client support. Everything, just stopped. Then, factor the loss to employee productivity (after all, what are your employees supposed to do when their systems are locked up), as well as lost sales revenue, limited access to customer and product data, and missed deadlines – including priority shipping deadlines.
A business continuity mindset can keep your business running.
A business disaster and recovery solution that delivers intelligent business continuity to your organization is in order. Intelligent business continuity means making sure your IT team, or IT managed services provider, consistently does all they can to secure backup of business-critical data, including deploying best practices in completing data restoration as required.
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With intelligent business continuity in place, your business can react and recover – potentially even avoid entirely – downtime. This means recovery is reduced to hours, minutes or even seconds, with full automation backup processes in place that include steps such as screenshot backup verification, incremental backups instantly virtualized, automatic redundent backups allowing your business to run off a secure cloud in the event of a disaster and, in some cases, off-site backups stored in data centers.
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To maintain network uptime during a natural disaster or other downtime threat, intelligent business continuity practices must work in coordination with secure backup of business data and, when necessary, timely recovery of operations following a disaster. What does intelligent business continuity look like? It’s end-to-end encryption, secure, purpose-built data centers, screenshot verification best practices, superior recovery time, instant local and off-site virtualization.
Here are two ways for you to ensure your business is safe and sound from downtime in 2018:
- Hire an IT team to create a disaster recovery plan, assess your current technologies, review, purchase and implement tech solutions to ensure your business is prepared for whatever disaster may strike.
- Contact CompuData today – and let us take care of it for you!
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