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“ At CIS we understand that not everyone appreciates the nuts and bolts of IT technology, so we ensure that the problem of losing money through disaster, down-time and data loss is explained in a way that’ s relevant and a solution is presented in plain English. We help you plan to avoid disaster striking and mitigate the damage done if it does”- said Richard.
The solution is Disaster Recovery
But what is Disaster Recovery( DR) I hear you say? If you understand backup then you’ re halfway there but the difference between backup and DR is like the difference between refuelling your car and having your car replaced after it has been written off. DR is about restoring your whole IT system should the worst happen.
Your data is the life-blood of your business – as valuable as cash. You don’ t
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keep your hard-earned salary in a metal box underneath your bed but rather in a purpose-built building- a bank- so why would you treat your data any differently?
Your thoughts … It’ s too expensive
Losing business data is one thing but what if your employees couldn’ t work for a day? Or worse, a whole week!? Once you start weighing up the costs of not being open for business and include the possible damage to your reputation, you should then start to see the value of implementing a solid DR plan.
What will DR do for me? Having a DR plan in place means you’ re reducing the risk of downtime and mitigating loss of revenue which keeps you and your business, but more importantly your clients, happy.
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But I already have a backup system in house …
A backup system is a great start but if it is manual, untested and located in the same location as your IT systems is it reliable enough to bet your business on? Also, if your IT system itself is unavailable, what are you going to run your backup on?
Any single point of failure whether that be hardware, software, personnel, connectivity or a power source is leaving you wide open to downtime. If disaster strikes, do you have a plan B?
When an emergency strikes your business, you need to be 100 % confident that you can be back up and running as usual as quickly as possible.
To find out more about Disaster Recovery planning for your business, please email me or call to speak to one of our team of experts.
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Richard Marsh, CEO, CIS.
Richard. marsh @ cisltd. com
01367 700555
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