Business Continuity“Always have a plan, and believe in it.
Nothing happens by accident.” Chuck Knox
Do you have a business continuity plan? This is a plan that will
maintain service,
consistency & recoverability in the event of a crisis.
Business Continuity: Don’t ignore it
Business Continuity is not something implemented at the
time of a disaster; Business Continuity refers to those activities
performed daily to maintain service, consistency, and recoverability. A
good Business Continuity plan ensures that critical business functions
will be available to customers, suppliers, regulators, and other
entities that must have access to those functions.
If a disaster strikes such as fire, theft, flood, etc,
can your staff access information to perform critical functions or are
they dead in the water? If you’re not sure, ask yourself the following
questions. If you respond to yes to even one question, you should
consider developing and implementing a business continuity plan.
- If your computer systems are down for a day or
more, will you lose business?
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- Are there irreplaceable people in your
organization (i.e.
the proverbial
question – what happens if this
person is hit by a bus)?
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- Do your employees store critical company
information
on their local computers and only their computers?
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- Are you using tapes to backup your information?
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Of companies experiencing catastrophic data loss:
- 43% of companies never reopened
- 51% of companies closed within 2 years
- 80% of companies that do not recover from a disaster
within one month are likely to go out of business.
- 75% of companies without business continuity plans
fail within three years of a disaster
- Companies that aren’t able to resume operations
within ten days (of a disaster hit) are not likely to
survive
- Of the businesses that experience a disaster and
have no emergency plan, 43 percent never reopen; of
those that do reopen, only 29 percent are still
operating two years later
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Key Benefits
- Reduces disaster recovery cost
- Increases application availability and business
continuity
- Scales in parallel to business needs and growth
- Reduces network security risks
- Hosted in secure fully redundant state-of-the-art
data center
- Allows for anywhere access
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Contact KEI and let us help you plan instead of
react.
