Business Continuity Blog Posts

Choosing the right business continuity providers will ensure that your business can rapidly recover after a critical event. But with so many different companies that provide business continuity services, the choices can be overwhelming.

Cyberattacks. Natural disasters. Human error. Any of these could take down your IT systems and grind your operations to a halt, without warning. If you’re not prepared, the business may never recover. In our Server Disaster Recovery Plan Template below, we’ve outlined the critical steps for approaching a real-world disaster scenario and getting your systems back up and running—before it’s too late.

In this post, we cover everything you need to know about business continuity and how to achieve it. So you can be fully prepared for a disaster and keep the business running.

Just how important is Business Continuity Management, and what goes into it? Find out here.

2020 has been an eventful year, to say the least. And we’re not out of the woods yet. Amid a global pandemic, coastal businesses are also in the middle of an active hurricane season.

A tornado will strike your office at 8:37 tonight. Will your business be up and running again tomorrow? If you haven’t planned for a worst-case scenario, the answer is no: not tomorrow and possibly not ever. We’ve created this simple checklist for disaster recovery plans to help you plan for how you’ll restore your operations after a disaster.

Nobody wants to get those dreaded 3 a.m. phone calls. “The servers are down.” “The backups failed.” “Ed from logistics opened a phishing email again!” These calls are an IT professional’s worst nightmare. But the good news is: with the right business continuity plan testing scenarios, you may never have to get such a call.

It’s no secret that we believe in the importance of disaster preparedness at every organization. But what does that planning actually look like when it’s put to the test in a real-world scenario? Let’s look at business continuity examples to show how organizations have worked to minimize downtime (or not) after critical events.

Identifying your business continuity plan objectives is an important first step to creating a comprehensive plan. Putting these objectives into words serves two important purposes.

Deploying a small business backup solution is the most important step to preventing data loss from ransomware, cyberattacks, accidental file deletion and other threats. But if you’re not backing up your data properly, recovering it can be a lot more challenging and costly.

How do know your company will survive a major data loss? Realistically, how much downtime could the business endure before recovery became next to impossible? What are the exact failsafes you need to implement to avert a total meltdown? If you don’t know the answers to these questions, then it’s probably time to speak to some experienced business continuity consultants ASAP.

Choosing the right data backup for SMBs is easier than you might think—especially when you know what to look for. Yes, there are plenty of options to choose from, but you can quickly narrow those choices by focusing on the specific needs of your organization.

When a computer virus infected the IT systems of a UK hospital group in November 2016, the group was forced to halt operations at three hospitals. For five excruciating days, the hospitals turned patients away while they shut down their systems to isolate and remove the virus. According to a report in Computing.co.uk, some experts now speculate there may not have been a hospital business continuity plan in place that would have helped to keep the facilities running during the disaster.

You’ve worked hard to build up your business, and it’s growing. The future looks bright. Then you get the news every small business owner or manager dreads – there’s been a fire, or a flood, or perhaps a tornado, or even an earthquake. Whatever the reason, your place of business has been rendered unusable, and for the moment at least, your entire operation has come to a halt. You need to know what makes up a killer business continuity plan.

Every type of data loss calls for a slightly different type of recovery. So it’s important to use the right method for the situation. In this post, we look at one method from Datto known as Rapid Rollback.

Today, it’s easier than ever for small to mid-sized businesses to get the enterprise-level data protection that previously only large organizations had access to. But despite these advancements, today’s business continuity statistics should still be a red flag for organizations in every industry.

Did you know there are several data recovery methods available on the Datto SIRIS? Let’s focus on one of those methods: virtualization.

Today’s business continuity statistics reveal that small and mid-sized businesses have gotten better about embracing business continuity planning over the last few decades.

Having a dependable data backup system is critical for maintaining business continuity. But it’s important to remember that not all backup solutions are made equally. Backing up your data is only the first step. When disaster strikes, businesses must be able to rapidly restore that data, so that the incident has minimal impact on your operations.