Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning for Fairfield County Business
Get ready for trouble
When a disaster strikes, will you be prepared? Disaster recovery and business continuity planning is vital to an organizations survival. Not all events are hurricanes, floods, fires or tornados. Although we had our fair share of those here in Fairfield County, Connecticut., less newsworthy events are the far more common, unplanned outages occurring everyday and include electrical, plumbing or facility failures.
The image on the right is a Power-Outage snapshot during the freak Fairfield County and Connecticut October snowstorm as reported on Connecticut Power & Light's website. The black key represents close to 100% power loss. As beak as it looks there are technologies available that let business continue working. As us about them.
Can your business survive just one of these events for even a few hours or days? The impact to your business can be staggering.
- 40% of all SMBs will go out of business if they cannot get to their data in the first 24 hours after a crisis. -- Gartner, Stamford, Connecticut
- 43% of companies never resume business following a major fire. Another 35% are out of business within 3 years. -- U.S. National Fire Protection Agency
- "Small companies often spend more time planning their company picnics than for an event that could put them out of business." -- Katherine Heaviside, Epoch 5
Computer Systems Support & Design has extensive disaster recovery and business continuity planning to help guide clients through the process of understanding where to start and most importantly, how to finish and test their plan.
We take a step-by-step, best practices approach in starting with your core business needs through completion and testing of the plan. Here is how:
Know what you do
It's crucial to understand what your business does to stay in business. Sounds simple but identifying the most critical resources is the first step in developing a plan. Ask yourself:
- What are our most critical business lines and services?
- Which of our functions cannot tolerate loss of data or unavailability "no matter what"?
- Can we ensure timely recovery of critical applications, people, data, platforms and networks?
Prepare for the unexpected
One of the best ways to ensure data survival and business continuity is to make sure data and resources are somewhere else if a disaster strikes.
Computer Systems Support & Design focuses on disaster recovery back-up and restoration technology early on. Even if the plan is still in development, this needs to be done first to ensure your business has the means to continue delivery of service that accounts for people, facilities, data, systems and processes at the time of a disaster.
Unlike many other providers, Computer Systems Support & Design brings together the two concepts of back-up and restore planning with business continuity planning.
Practice makes perfect
Once the business continuity and recover plan is done, it is important to test it. We help clients fine tune and regularly test their plans and provide modifications for your growing business.
With Computer Systems Support & Design, you gain a dedicated business partner. We provide comprehensive technological solutions that are custom designed for your business with only your needs in mind. Our philosophy is to treat each client’s needs as an on-going program and develop solutions around emerging technologies and services.
Let Computer Systems Support & Design’s Disaster Recovery and Planning Services help you and your business take the important steps needed to stay in business.
Call today (203) 348-8047 Ext 211
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