If you can say “Yes” to all the following questions it sounds like you have your Disaster Recovery Planning well in hand. If there are a few you haven’t ticked you should consider calling us to arrange a free consultation.

• Do you make and test daily Backups?
• Do you store backup’s offsite?
• Do you maintain duplicate equipment in case of failure?
• Do you regularly test disaster recovery procedures?
• Do you maintain hot standby equipment for mission critical systems?
• Do you have a failover ISP?
• Do you maintain redundant equipment to eliminate single points of failure?
• Do you have Business Continuity Insurance?
• Do you have a failover operations center or even just office space to move into in a hurry?

• Consultancy advice and help with the production, ongoing maintenance and regular testing of a Disaster Recovery Plan for your business.

• Provision of Offsite tape storage and On Line backup facilities.

• Provision of equipment in case of disaster.

• Provision of hot standby equipment.

• 97 percent of organisations in the UK would be unable to continue with business as normal following a data centre fire, despite having disaster recovery plans in place.

• Over two-fifths are unable to predict how long it would take to restore operations, either in part or completely

• Just 3 percent say they could carry on with business as usual after such a fire

• 36 percent have no idea how long it would take to achieve even skeletal operations

• Just 17 percent could achieve a skeletal service within 3.23 days

• 38 percent do not know how long it would take to achieve 100 percent normal operations

• Only 21 percent of UK organisations test their plans on a monthly basis

• 28 percent only test once a year

• Eight percent never test at all.

• Many organisations are unprepared and extremely vulnerable highlighting the importance of business continuity and disaster recovery planning.

• 57% of organisations stated that their IT systems would function for less than a day in the event of a power loss.

• Almost a third of organisations would only be able to maintain their IT systems for less than an hour in the event of a power loss.

• It would only take 2 days for 67% of organisations to face significant impact or catastrophic impact in the event of a power loss.

• 47% of government bodies would suffer significant or catastrophic impact on their IT operations within 24 hours in the event of a power loss.

• Nearly a third of organisations who have a disaster recovery plan have not tested it in the last year.