Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

With the increased risk of losing your premises and ultimately your IT systems through flood, fire, natural disasters or criminal activity can you afford not to take precautions?

organisations are understandably taking the necessary steps to ensure that their systems and their businesses can continue running effectively in the event of unforeseeable downtime by using Premier to plan, prepare and implement high availability IT Solutions. Lost production, lost revenue and lost customers are all potential consequences of a poorly implemented and poorly maintained disaster recovery solution.

As an IT manager it is your duty to ensure that you have a business continuity plan in place should a disaster strike. With our experience and expertise we can assist to create a business continuity plan to meet your budget and your required system recovery time objective. We can offer affordable disaster recovery solutions for organisations that will allow your business to recover from a disaster with the minimum amount of time, disruption and cost.

 

Disaster Statistics & Potential Implications

(Extracts from The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry)

• 90% of business that lose data from a disaster are forced to shut within 2 years of the disaster.
• 80% of business without a well structured recovery plan are forced to shut within 12 months of a flood or fire.
• 43% of companies experiencing disasters never recover.
• 50% of companies experiencing a computer outage will be forced to shut within five years.
• Companies experiencing a computer outage lasting longer than 10 days will never recover its full financial capacity.
• Less than 50% of all organisations in the UK have a business continuity plan.
• 43% of companies who have a business continuity plan do not test it annually to ensure that it works.
• One out of 500 data centres experience a severe disaster every year.
• 80% of companies have not developed crisis management to provide IT coverage to support business continuity to keep the business functioning effectively.
• 25% of financial institutions have no business continuity plan.
• 19% of financial institutions who have business continuity plans have not tested them in the last five years.
• 40 % of companies that have crisis management plans do not have a team dedicated to disaster recovery.
• 58% of UK organisations were disrupted by September 11th with one in eight severely affected.

To fully understand the importance of implementing a comprehensive disaster recovery plan we would suggest you read the following articles from the Department of Trade and Industry and the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry:

• Systems Failure
• Business Continuity Management

SOL Data Backup™ can form an integral part of your DR Solution