Cloud Computing

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery– Why Critical?

April 12, 2013

In a technology enabled world, every business is dependent on the digital information available at the fingertips. Further with back up storage servers and devices technology has also paved way for the development of a number of ways and means to enable enterprises safeguard their critical information. Nevertheless, every business faces down times and major unknowns, thus making it vital for the enterprises to have appropriate plans to ensure continuity of business come what may.

With most of the enterprises bitten by the global bug, the global business landscape makes it all the more crucial for the enterprises to call for a business continuity and disaster recovery plan as a strategic initiative. However, statistics from the records of the Underwriters Guide showcases that as early as 2007, there were only around only 6 % of enterprises have bounced back after huge data losses. 43% of the ones hit by disasters never reopened and around 51% closed business within a period of 2 years. Wikipedia defines disaster recovery and business continuity as an organization’s ability to recover from a disaster or any unexpected event and resume normal operations.

The global enterprises in wake of the highly competitive business environment tend to provide their employees, vendors and customers anytime anywhere access to the network. Further, globalization of the enterprises has led to an increase in the expanse of data that are transferred through the corporate networks. With issues of security of information in the form of unauthorized access and data leakage upsurging, most of the global enterprises make use of data centers that offer dedicated servers or cloud computing services. However, it thus becomes imperative that enterprises need to protect themselves from any catastrophic data losses and even in the event of any natural or man made disaster should be able to bounce back within days.

An effective business continuity and disaster recovery plan would therefore be one that will be dependent on the industry and factors such as complexity of the organization in relation to its location, number of employees, supply chain, systems recovery etc. The leading IT service providers however, have designed and developed robust and systematic business continuity and disaster recovery solutions that will not only retrieve lost data swiftly and smoothly, but also protect businesses against unpredictable losses. The disaster recovery plans so designed offers enterprises security against natural disasters, accidental deletion of critical data as well as system failure.

The business continuity and disaster recovery plan from the leaders in the industry sector helps enterprises restore the integrity of their IT infrastructure and data , thus enabling faster resumption of operations. This process also helps enterprises to minimize damages to brand reputation.

Monitor Security Network and Systems with Network Penetration Testing

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