Business Continuity Blog

How often should you back up data for your business? This is just one of many important questions that organizations must consider when creating a small business backup strategy. And since each business is unique, every organization will have their own specific recovery needs and objectives.

There are lots of terms to describe the various ways businesses prepare for disaster: disaster recovery, business continuity, emergency response, disaster management and numerous others. Learn more here.

When there’s a break in business continuity in the financial services industry, it doesn’t just disrupt a single business – it can disrupt entire markets.

Every business faces a major data-loss situation at some point. It’s not a question of “if,” but “when.” And when it happens, businesses without a corporate data backup solution face grim prospects for recovery.

Small business backup software is a fundamental piece of any business continuity solution. It’s the brains behind your backups, controlling every aspect of how your data is protected.

Choosing a disaster recovery solution is a big decision. And with so many types of data backup to choose from, comparing them can be overwhelming.

No business is immune to disaster. But with a comprehensive disaster management plan, any business can reduce the risk of an emergency situation and recover quickly when disruptions occur.

Maintaining continuity is vital for every business, but perhaps no other industry faces the same level of urgency as healthcare.

What exactly is corporate data backup? Well, it has come a long way over the last two decades. New technologies, combined with the increased power of cloud computing, have dramatically improved all aspects of the backup process.

A sudden loss of data can derail the operations of any business. But the impact can be especially devastating for smaller companies and startups, which often can’t recover from the high costs of extended downtime.

Fire, flooding, ransomware – disasters can strike at any moment, in many different forms. When companies aren’t prepared, their operations come to a screeching halt—and in many cases, they never recover. By implementing a comprehensive disaster management plan, your organization can help reduce the risk of disasters and recover quickly when they do occur.

Preparing for disaster is one of the best things a business can do to avoid downtime when disruptive events occur. But for smaller companies, it’s not always clear how to approach that planning.

We’ve created this business continuity plan template to guide you in creating the single most important resource in your disaster-planning toolbox: the business continuity plan (BCP).

In today’s business world, data is everything. From critical application data to sensitive customer files, companies today are literally powered by their data. Without an adequate corporate data backup system in place, a business stands to lose everything.

People often use the terms disaster recovery and business continuity planning interchangeably, but while these two terms are similar, they describe two different approaches businesses take to bounce back in the event of a disaster.

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? Today, we look at 4 business continuity examples to show how organizations have worked to minimize downtime (or not) after critical events.