Category: The Reality of Disaster Recovery

Entrepreneurs are risk takers by definition. They are people willing to risk their time, or money or reputation on a business plan without guarantees of success. Running a business is no place for the timid. This partly explains why IT professionals often have difficulty selling the concept of disaster recovery to decision-making executives. Because their…

It’s human nature to want to accentuate the positives and downplay the negatives about us. This is as true for individual people as it is for our businesses and organizations. The problem is that the bigger organizations usually have bigger rugs to sweep the unflattering stuff under.

In the past several months, we’ve seen environmental events cause billions of dollars of damage for North American businesses. We’ve seen ice storms virtually close down major cities for days without electrical power. Floodwaters have swamped vast city blocks on different parts of the continent, causing untold headaches. Hurricanes and tornadoes seem to threaten more…

In addition to Disaster Recovery (DR) plans and Business Continuity (BC) plans, companies can prepare to deal with potential disruptions by creating an Emergency Management plan. Whereas DR and BC plans address significant threats that endanger business viability, Emergency Management preparation focuses on a more common type of threat that can temporarily disrupt operations, but…

Fire. Flood. Power Outage. Terrorist Attack. Street Protests. Issues like these lead to two things for your business: downtime and lost revenue. Neither is good for the bottom line, but with a solid disaster recovery plan in place, your company can limit the fallout. But how much is that going to cost? Investing in DR…