Disaster Recovery

According to DTI, at least 70% of businesses that suffer computer and data loss go out of business within 18 months and 40% go out of business within 5 years.

Disaster recovery planning should mean that an incident has minimal impact on your business and stop it from mushrooming into a financial disaster. Yet many small and medium companies remain unprepared.

Why do we always install the burglar alarm after the first burglary?  Disaster recovery planning is about being prepared for unplanned events that can be anticipated.

We should think about ‘incidents’ rather than ‘disasters’ when we consider disaster recovery, because it is the routine, unplanned for incidents that result in massive loss of productivity. The chances of being faced by what is commonly perceived as a ‘disaster’ are relatively small, but it is more than likely that ‘incidents’ will occur quite frequently — from which you want to isolate your business