It’s going to happen, and you know it. Murphy’s law says it will happen at the worst possible time, too. It might have a natural cause like a fire, flood, tornado, earthquake, or hurricane. Or it could be from the construction down the street, cutting access to the internet, power, or other vital utility. Your servers or workstations may fail. Perhaps your network crashes, or there is a hacker on your system. Hardware is complicated and prone to failure. Software is complicated and succumbs to viruses and malware. Data becomes corrupted. Technology breaks. Are you gambling your business’s survival on your present Disaster Recovery Plan? Do you have a formal Disaster Recovery Plan?
“Almost 40% of small businesses never reopen their doors following a disaster.”
— FEMA **
Not every emergency is a full-blown catastrophe, but it can stop the show and hurt your business or organization. It still requires a plan to handle the crisis, and so a Disaster Recovery Plan can define the most mission-critical aspects of the business and how to take steps to get them running again in case of any problems. The organization will be ready for both minor and major mishaps. Once an incident occurs, you need only refer to your DRP, and the steps to solving your issue are there. You seize control over the situation, and your business is back to full throttle with minimal impact.
Using their own resources, it is often far too expensive for a small or medium sized business and organzations to have a full-fledged Disaster Recovery Plan in place. Large corporations have massive data centers that ensure they (almost) never have downtime regardless of what goes wrong. But even banks and Google and Amazon have outages at times. Think of what happens when your business goes out of business, even for a little while. Tech365 provides Disaster Recovery planning and management services to small and medium-sized businesses and organizations in Noblesville, Fishers, Carmel, and Indianapolis. With Tech365, you get a full analysis of your critical infrastructure and seasoned, experienced, professional guidance in setting a plan for the unfortunate event of a disaster which will be implemented and maintained by our Tech365 staff and systems. Working in tandem with our Tech365 Managed Backup and Tech365 Network Monitoring services, your organization can be prepared for the unforeseen and unwarranted event of a disaster such as:
What matters is that once disaster strikes, you get back to full operations as quickly as possible. To do this requires several steps. There are industry standards and accepted ways to plan for contingencies. Tech365 follows the best industry practices and provides the finest IT resources and full-time support for your needs.
Here is a brief overview of the Disaster Recovery Planning process:
There are three operational levels after a disaster:
A Disaster Recovery Plan accomplishes the following goals:
The IT management portion of the Disaster Recovery Plan addresses these issues:
One element of Disaster Recovery Planning that organizations fail to spend enough time on is testing the various scenarios under which they might need to invoke their recovery plan. Tech365 can help by discussing these scenarios and showing you the steps you would take in different incidents of major or minor proportions. Testing takes the guesswork — and the panic — out of these situations. Talk to one of our representatives about scenario testing. It’s part of the service.
We highly recommend your organization research us and others in the industry. We’re confident you’ll come to the conclusion that we provide consistent, high-quality services to each and every client no matter its size. Our success is 100% contingent upon your success.
Tech365 is a full service IT and tech support company located in Noblesville, IN but also serves businesses and organizations in Fishers, Carmel, Indianapolis, and Bloomington.
