Backup and Disaster Recovery

Before reading any further, please stop and take a few minutes to truly think of what would happen if you lost your network infrastructure. Whether youre a small, medium, or large business, whether youre in healthcare, accounting, government, education, manufacturing, or service, what would happen if you couldnt access your data or your email? What happens if your entire organization couldnt access their data or email? What if its payroll day and you cant pay your employees. What happens if youre offline for 48 hours? 70% of businesses, that experience a major data loss, are out of business within one year (DTI/ PricewaterhouseCoopers).

Disaster recovery and business continuity plans are often developed together, as theyre plans for ensuring continued business operations in the event of a disaster (business continuity), and fully recovering from the disaster (disaster recovery). Both are administrative safeguards, put in place to protect the availability of your IT systems and data.