No business owner ever wants to think a disaster will strike their business. Disasters happen all the time from a flash flood, fire, break-ins or even theft of important business information. Disasters do come in all shapes and sizes, business today must be ready ahead of time. ”It is not a question of if, but when”.
Is your Toronto business ready?
Disaster Recovery Planning takes commitment, time and effort to make sure all possible scenarios are planned, tested and documented. There are many potential risks including a computer network failure, virus infection and technical glitches causing your business to come to a grinding halt.
You come into work on a Monday morning and find out nothing is working, what do you do?
You may put a panic phone call into your Toronto computer consultant and wait for them to return this call or even show up. How many hours pass and what is the loss of revenue and overall costs? This is not a good scenario. A professional Toronto IT consulting organization will be monitoring your network and already be aware a problem occurred or even better, this would have never happened. Managed IT services is a different story for a different day.
Plan for a disaster today.
Sit down with our team and plan your data backup and recovery today. There are two critical factors we must look at when putting together your business disaster recovery and business continuity plan. Your business needs and risk tolerance will decide the correct backup and disaster recovery option.
We also make sure business information has the right safeguards to prevent a malicious employee looking at taking customer databases when they leave your employment. Our services take care of the planning, backup of your data, protection of your data and we also make sure the rapid recovery of your information.
Some critical focus points when determining risk and the right backup solution include:
- Restore-time objectives (RTOs) – what is an acceptable time period to recovery any of your lost data where work can start again? Your business may have a single restore-time goal or you may have different RTOs depending on job function and department. For example, your sales team may need faster restoration of the client management system than the HR department requires for their word documents.
- Restore-point objectives (RPOs) – is the exact moment to which the system will be restored after a failure. What is your business willing to tolerate? Is 4 hours of loss data acceptable? It is 24 hours? Maybe your business needs determine that any data loss is unacceptable.
There are many important items to consider as part of your overall backup and disaster recovery strategy. When it comes to planning for a disaster the costs considered with the risks must balance. What are you willing to risk and what investments will you need to make to lower the risk to your business.
Prevention is the best approach. No matter what size of business you run there are systems and technologies available and at affordable prices to make sure your business has a robust data and server backup solution in place.
Idealogical can jump in and offer support. Our team of Toronto IT consultants have the skills to help craft a strategy and then execute on the plan, ensuring your business data is safe and secure. Our solutions range from very simple data backup strategies to complex offsite backup and server virtualization solutions.
When the next business disaster strikes, we are here to help you.
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