Disaster Recovery

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The heart of your business may be the information contained in your various applications and databases. Protecting and ensuring the recoverability of this data could be essential to your success and survival in a competitive business environment.

Few organisations are prepared for the consequences that might occur as a result of a major IT system disaster or failure. This failure can take many forms, such as a lightning strike, hardware theft, or even physical damage to your equipment. The need to plan ahead for such an eventuality is essential as even a simple disc failure on a workstation may prove disastrous should large volumes of data become lost or corrupted.

What contingency plans have you put in place to avoid a disaster within your company? Statistics show that businesses that lose their computer systems for 10 days or more struggle to recover financially, and 50% are out of business within 5 years. Many businesses do not consider disaster recovery a priority and as a result often fail to plan for such an eventuality.

Imagine the potential effects on your business if your office wasclosed due to a flood or a fire. Now consider the effects if all your data and e-mail was lost, or your e-mail was down, for a similar period. Business principals often take steps to prevent damage caused by flood or fire, yet make no plans for data loss or major computer failure.

The most common types of disaster, in order of frequency, that affect businesses are:

Failure of computer equipment
Virus infection
Equipment theft
Flood
Fire

At Atech Systems we understand the importance of a disaster recovery plan, and the need to have such a plan in place to prevent your business being put at risk. We can define, test and document a recovery plan, so that in the event of a disaster or failure we can get your business back up and running quickly.