Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Planning

Disaster recovery and business continuity planning by Tech Prognosis can help organizations prepare for disruptive events — like flooding or simply a power outage caused by a backhoe in the parking lot or remodelling of your office building. Every business and organization can experience a serious incident which can prevent it from continuing normal operations. This this can happen any day at any time. The potential causes are many and varied: flood, explosion, computer malfunction, accident, grievious act... the list is endless.

Recent statistics portray an alarming picture of the dismal level of preparedness for continuing business after a disruption by small and medium businesses (SMBs). This is especially so in hte area of data backup. According to a study by IDC, as much as 60% of corporate data resides unprotected on PC desktops and laptops” We can add servers to that list becasue they did not fare too well either.

Having a business continuity and disaster recovery plan in place is an essential part of running a modern business and there are resource that can help.

What are your options?

   1. You can go the old route and install a tape hardware and go through the routine of swapping tapes every night or based on your rotation schedule.

   2. You can install a removable hard drive or Network Attached Storage (NAS) device to back up your organization's data to.

   3. You can choose to do nothing (not recommended).

The problem with the first two options is that your data still reside within your business premises. If any accident were to happen and you could not get to your office, your data is still out of reach.

A viable option is remote storage or online backup solution that takes a snapshot of your data environment and replicates it to a remote location. That is where the BinaryGuardian Online Backup solution from Tech Prognosis can help.
 

Tech Prognosis offers BinaryGuardian™ - a universal solution with devices that can be configured to function as a standby server in your environment!

This service eliminates the risks and hassles of removable media backups (tapes, hard drives, USB).

Here are just a few benefits of the BinaryGuardian™ Universal Backup and Disaster Recovery Service for Small Business:

• Your files are automatically backed up every night right over the Internet. No more buying expensive tapes, hard drives or USB.
• No rotating and storing tapes, or hard drives – one important item off your to-do list.
• Your data is safe from fire, floods, theft, hardware malfunctions, and human error.
• You can back up ALL of your data and not be limited to the size of your tape or hard drive.
• Your financial records, client data, and files are sent to a dedicated backup server in your office and to an off-site secure data vault – without the hassle or risk of relying on staff to change tape / hard drives or USB’s and take them off-site.
• In the event of a catastrophic failure with your server, we’ll respond immediately and in as little as two hours, the backup server takes the place of your main server while your main server is being repaired.
• In the event of permanent loss of your main server and backup server due to hardware failure, theft, fire or flood, a new backup server containing the most recent backed up data from the off-site backup centre would be delivered to you and installed within 3-5 business days.

To learn more about Managed Backup and Disaster Recovery Services, contact Tech Prognosis at (512) 814-8044.

Here are some sobering numbers:

• 32% of data loss is caused by human error
• US businesses lose about $55 Billion annually due to damages caused by computer viruses
• 44% of data loss caused by mechanical failures
• 1 in 5 computers suffer a fatal hard drive crash during their lifetime
• The overall average failure rate of disk and tape drives is 100% - all drives eventually fail
• 80% of computer crime consists of “inside jobs” by disgruntled employees

On business backup practices:

• Over 40% of Small and Medium Sized Businesses don’t back up their data at all
• 60% of all data is held on PC Desktops and laptops
• 40 - 50% of all backups are not fully recoverable and up to 60% of all backups fail in general
• 96% of all business workstations are not being backed up

On the cost of recouping data:

• It takes 19 days and costs $17,000 to retype 20 megabytes of sales data
• Recreating data from scratch is estimated to cost between $2000 and $8000 per MB
• 60% of companies that lose their data close down within 6 months of the disaster
• 72% of businesses that suffer major data loss disappear within 24 months

According to Gartner, some of the key causes for unplanned downtime are:

• Hardware System Malfunctions - 44 percent of all data loss
• Software Corruption Issues- 14 percent of all data loss
• Network Failure - 20 percent of all data loss
• Human error - 32 percent of all data loss
• Environmental - 14 percent of all data loss
• Computer Viruses  - 7 percent of all data loss
• Natural Disasters - 3 percent of all data loss

Call Tech Prognosis at (512) 814-8044 to start protecting your data today.