Category: Business Continuity

When a critical system goes down, the first few minutes matter. That isn’t the time to decide who is responsible for recovery, determine which applications are most important or search for contact information for a key vendor. Those decisions should already be documented. Yet many businesses invest heavily in technology designed to prevent disruptions without… Continue reading When the Emergency Hits, It’s Too Late to Plan

A backup strategy can look perfectly healthy right up until the moment you need to recover. Backup jobs are completing. Monitoring tools aren’t reporting major problems. Your IT team knows the environment. Everything appears to be covered. Then a server fails, ransomware encrypts critical data or an employee accidentally deletes something important—and assumptions get replaced… Continue reading The 4 Most Expensive Backup Assumptions Businesses Make

When a fire alarm goes off at a school, nobody stops to figure out what to do next. Students know where to go. Teachers know their responsibilities. Everyone has practiced the process before an actual emergency occurs. Your backup and disaster recovery strategy should work the same way. Having backups is important, but a backup… Continue reading The Fire Drill No Business Owner Wants to Run

Let’s look at 7 business continuity examples to show how organizations have worked to minimize downtime (or not) after critical events.

The top causes of data loss for today’s businesses are human error, hardware failure, malware and other forms of cyberattacks. However, do you know how to prevent them?

Explore how SMBs have improved business continuity planning and discover key stats on the importance of disaster recovery to guard against threats like ransomware and power outages.

Taking a reactive approach to IT rarely feels like a major problem in the moment. A system starts running slightly slower than usual. An application occasionally freezes. Backup alerts appear inconsistently. A software update gets postponed because the team is focused on more immediate priorities. Work continues, so the issue gets pushed down the list.… Continue reading How “We’ll Fix It Later” Quietly Turns Into Expensive IT Downtime

Every year around late June, people talk about the longest day of the year as if extra daylight somehow creates extra capacity. For most businesses, that is rarely the real issue. The problem is not a lack of hours in the day — it is how much productive time gets lost throughout it. Not through… Continue reading Most Businesses Don’t Have a Time Problem. They Have an Interruption Problem.

Maintaining business continuity in manufacturing is critical for preventing a costly halt in production. But unfortunately, not all manufacturers are equipped to prevent every disruption. Here’s what you need to know.