Tag: Disaster Recovery

BCDR For Business: The 7-Step Path to Conducting a Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
Armed with a robust backup & disaster recovery solution, your business will experience less downtime, recover operations faster and protect productivity if business-sensitive data gets damaged/lost following a disaster, breach or accidental deletion.
Experts estimate that humans produce 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day.1 That is a lot of information. However, having a poor backup strategy can wipe out all or vast portions of your data in a single click. From accidental deletions and malicious attacks to natural disasters, there are multiple ways by which you can lose your business data. Therefore, make sure a robust backup and disaster recovery (BDR) solution is an integral part of your business.
Experts estimate that humans produce 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day.1 That is a lot of information. However, having a poor backup strategy can wipe out all or vast portions of your data in a single click. From accidental deletions and malicious attacks to natural disasters, there are multiple ways by which you can lose your business data. Therefore, make sure a robust backup and disaster recovery (BDR) solution is an integral part of your business.
This policy defines the requirement for a baseline disaster recovery plan to be developed and implemented by your business that will describe the process to recover IT systems, applications and data from any type of disaster that causes a major outage.
Since disasters happen so infrequently, management often ignores the disaster recovery planning process. It is important to realize that having a contingency plan in the event of a disaster gives your company a competitive advantage. This policy requires management to financially support and diligently attend to disaster contingency planning efforts. Disasters are not limited to adverse weather conditions. Any event that is likely to cause an extended delay of service should be considered.