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
Companies experience data loss in a variety of ways: Hardware failure resulting in data corruption
Power outage or power surge
Viruses re-format hard disks
Theft of the computer systems
Fire which includes smoke damage or meltdown
Flood as water damages sensitive electronics
Wear & Tear as Tape drives do eventually wear out and bearings fail
Software fails to start or finish backup
Software fails to install completely
Malicious Damage - Employees delete data or someone hacks the computer
Employee accidentally deletes the wrong file or directory
Can you afford to leave it to chance?
Data loss can be very costly not only in pounds and downtime but also in productivity. File corruption and data loss are becoming much more common, although loss of productivity continues to be the major cost associated with a virus disaster.
In addition to being more prevalent, computer viruses are more costly, more destructive, and cause more real damage to data and systems than at any time in the past.
Most organisations are highly dependent on information technology systems and when disaster strikes, you may lose the ability to manage and control order handling, sales & invoicing, collection of money and control of your cash-flow.
The more fundamental longer-term risks include:
Damage to your reputation
Damage to staff morale
Loss of customer loyalty & confidence
Legal and regulatory problems
Given this, having an IT disaster recovery service in place is both urgent and essential - to protect your business and to protect the interests of shareholders, customers, suppliers and employees.
If you think that your company cannot cope with an interruption to your services then you need to think seriously now about disaster recovery planning.
You may feel that nothing is serious enough to justify the time and effort in planning ahead is going to happen to you. But what if…?
Avoid it becoming a disaster use Bluestone’s Disaster Recovery Image Service
Using special Disaster Recovery Software, we create an image of your server on an external drive which we will put on to a hard drive which will be given back to you for safe keeping.
The Disaster Recovery Image can be used to restore a server back to the state it was in when the image was taken. If there was a major problem with your system in the future this will avoid the lengthy rebuild time, thus saving you downtime and money. *We then restore the last good data backup which should be less than 24 hours old.
You can consider this as an insurance policy that enables you to get your server/network up and running quickly in case of major failure.
To take an image, we would estimate at least an hour maybe two, with an uninterrupted server (this could take longer depending on the amount of data there is to be imaged).
The costs for this service start from £350.00 plus Vat per server for a single image and it is recommended that this be carried out at a minimum of every six months. To spread the cost if preferred payment can be made monthly or quarterly. Other options for full Disaster Recovery Services are available; please see our separate price list for details.
*It is essential that you make regular backups to protect your investment in hardware, software and data. Having an up-to-date copy of all your critical data will protect you in the event of data loss through accidental deletion or corruption of files, hard disk failure, or virus attack. In the event of such a crisis, it will provide you with a safe and reliable means of recovering your data, allowing you to restore your system to its pre-crisis state in the shortest possible time. |
