Business Continuity Blog Posts

Colleges, universities, and schools at all levels are deeply invested in the digital age. The COVID-19 pandemic has added another layer of complexity and challenges. We have seen how campus outbreaks of COVID-19 can disrupt semesters and require schools to switch to remote learning. As such, the pandemic has resulted in an increased dependency on IT.

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.

Deploying a dependable data backup system is essential to maintaining business continuity in legal services. But with so many different backup products to choose from, it can be difficult for firms to know which solution is best for your practice.

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.

As businesses rapidly adapt to the COVID-19 outbreak, the need for comprehensive disaster recovery planning has never been more vital. The global pandemic has forced many organizations to rethink their operations, adopting new telecommuting policies and building out infrastructure to support it.

Microsoft guarantees a 99.9% uptime for its Microsoft 365 services, providing some peace of mind that your email, cloud apps and files will be available when you need them. But as any M365 user knows, that tiny 0.1% of potential downtime can translate into a nightmare when the service actually goes down.

Many businesses are moving to converged infrastructure as a way to simplify their infrastructure, consolidating disparate IT components into a single hardware stack.

Disaster management (DM) is an important planning process that helps organizations prepare for all aspects of a disaster. But depending on the business’s objectives, there are actually several different types of disaster management that can be deployed.

The legal services community faces unique challenges when it comes to business continuity. Today’s law firms are increasingly digital and decentralized. Attorneys and their staff work on the go, using a wide range of applications to manage their case files, track billable hours and catalog the discovery process.

One of the greatest challenges for growing businesses today is reducing the complexity and cost of sprawling IT infrastructures. By consolidating several IT components into a single integrated system—a concept known as converged infrastructure—businesses can achieve greater simplicity, flexibility and scalability.

Deploying a corporate data backup system is a must for businesses of all sizes. But with so many types of backup technologies to choose from these days, it can be difficult to know where to start.

A destructive ransomware attack on the City of Baltimore is the latest in a series of targeted attacks at government offices recently. From Atlanta to Albany, these attacks have crippled public services—sometimes for weeks at a time—underscoring the dire need for maintaining business continuity in government.