Sometimes known as "business continuity", disaster recovery can be defined as the process of ensuring your business can keep running when faced with a disaster of some kind. These disasters could range from the physical, such as a floor in your offices that affects your servers or it could be virtual or web-based, such as a virus damaging your systems or a hacking attempt deleting your data - it could even lead to you losing all of the data on your customers! As a lot of businesses now rely on their computer systems to simply function this could be very damaging.
If you have implemented a disaster recovery plan you are safe in the knowledge that during an incident like this your business can continue operating. Data being backed up physically and kept in another location is a simple example of a disaster recovery plan. Ignoring such processes leaves you open to:
Productivity Decrease or Loss
A "disaster" doesn't necessarily mean that you will automatically lose your data. But if you aren't able to access it for a while you will still lose productive time that could be earning money for your business. Depending on your business you will likely not be able to provide services for a period, which can be damaging.
Customer Trust Issues
Your customers trust you to look after their data, and if you don't you will obviously lose that trust. When the Playstation Network was hacked customers left in droves as they felt betrayed because Sony didn't do enough to protect their data.
Shutting Down
A lot of businesses don't survive data loss and end up closing down because of a mix of the loss of trust, customers leaving and the downtime.
The reasons above show that by implementing an IT disaster recovery plan and IT security you could save your business before an event happens. If you do not have a plan in place it would be advisable to do so before it is too late.
If you have implemented a disaster recovery plan you are safe in the knowledge that during an incident like this your business can continue operating. Data being backed up physically and kept in another location is a simple example of a disaster recovery plan. Ignoring such processes leaves you open to:
Productivity Decrease or Loss
A "disaster" doesn't necessarily mean that you will automatically lose your data. But if you aren't able to access it for a while you will still lose productive time that could be earning money for your business. Depending on your business you will likely not be able to provide services for a period, which can be damaging.
Customer Trust Issues
Your customers trust you to look after their data, and if you don't you will obviously lose that trust. When the Playstation Network was hacked customers left in droves as they felt betrayed because Sony didn't do enough to protect their data.
Shutting Down
A lot of businesses don't survive data loss and end up closing down because of a mix of the loss of trust, customers leaving and the downtime.
The reasons above show that by implementing an IT disaster recovery plan and IT security you could save your business before an event happens. If you do not have a plan in place it would be advisable to do so before it is too late.
About the Author:
Keytech Managed Services offer disaster recovery services as part of their wider managed data services.
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