Let’s face it, it’s never nice to talk about when things go wrong. But when considering business IT, if you don’t have a recovery plan in place, when it’s gone wrong is too late to start having that conversation.
With new technologies that are available and a good understanding of your business it’s never been easier to get a good system in place to make sure you are covered when or if the worst should happen.
Traditionally business continuity plans typically involve:
- Building backup machines
- Moving users to a new offsite office
- Rent payments and lots of additional equipment
All very expensive and time consuming. They often aren’t immediately available when things go wrong and critical business hours are lost waiting for your disaster recovery site to become operational. In short not ideal.
This thinking was good back when all your data was on servers in an office, but is it really relevant now?
Instead we recommend taking some simple steps that will make your recovery plans that much easier:
- Move your data to the cloud
- Minimise the data you keep only in 1 location
The key is to make your data accessible anywhere therefore securely designing your disaster recovery into your IT.
COVID-19 has shown how flexible businesses need to be with working environments. Enabling access to your business data from anywhere is now a core function, so your business can still run BAU even when disaster strikes. Good Disaster Recovery design is so important to ensuring that your most important asset, information, is secured and always available to you.
Here at Aiden’s ideas we have years of experience securing, transforming and managing IT so that changes outside of your business, and your control, can be adapted to. Ensuring your business keeps working wherever you are and what ever disaster you may face.
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