Thursday, July 24, 2014

Your Disaster Recovery Plan

By Frankline Bell


While disaster may never strike your business, if some type of catastrophic failure affects your company, you need to feel confident that you have a plan in place to deal with the consequences. A disaster could include anything from an earthquake or flood to some type of man-made catastrophe such as a fire. Knowing that you have a business continuity plan in place brings a great deal of peace of mind.

Your business continuity plan can be just as important as any other type of business planning. In general, these plans contain five elements, some of which deal with what employees should do in variety of crises and some are created to handle information technology issues. One part of the plan will focus on employees and what they should do and where they should go in case of many different emergencies. This is called an occupant emergency plan, and this can help with evacuations or how to handle disasters and other types of emergencies.

To help keep your company going during a disaster, a continuity of operations plan also needs to be part of your business continuity plan. A business resumption plan is also part of the total plan. All of this will help minimize delays in providing service to clients as well as making decision making far easier during a time of crisis. Employees and managers will work more efficiently and with less stress if comprehensive plans have been created.

Two parts of the plan solely deal with your information technology, and for most businesses, your technology is the backbone of your operation. An incident management plan will help you deal with a variety of problems that might occur, such the temporary loss of power or perhaps having your system hacked or infected with malware. If a true disaster occurs, then your disaster recovery plan will be brought into play.

While you can create these plans yourself, it is often wise to have an IT consultant create these plans and offer out-sourced IT management. An IT consultant can handle all of your technology issues and create a plan that is tailored to your company. Every company is unique, so each business continuity plan also must be unique. In addition to creating these plans, your managed IT support provider also can consult with you concerning ways to improve your overall information technology plans and strategies.

At Always On IT, we can create a Business Continuity Plan that meets your company's specific needs. We offer full managed IT support throughout Portland, Washington County and Multnomah County. Our business IT services include the creation of a business continuity plan, comprehensive back-up and disaster recover planning services and general IT consulting. In addition, we provide all types of network and computer support and repairs.




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