Nearly all businesses will have a technology outage of some sort that could last for an hour or a day, or longer. All businesses, even small ones, need to have business continuity plan.

As IT (Information Technology) continues to integrate into every part of modern business, the cost of downtime becomes greater. Do you have a plan? Business owners should think how long it may take to recover from an outage. Even something like a PC takes a time to rebuild.

Maintaining good data backup practices is one thing, but what if you can't get to the data because your PCs are toast? Do you use an offsite storage service? What if 
your Internet connect is down for a day or two? Do you have copies of all your software? Do you have a spare PC just in case?

Blog-SmallBiz.com recommends all business take some time to evaluate their business continuity plans. A good mixture of onsite and offsite storage of your data is the first step. Then, don't treat all applications the same, find the processes that everyone notices if they're down for 15 minutes and concentrate on those.

An Example: One of our clients (a retail business with over 80 employees) maintains at least 2 spare PCs at all times. Other than the delivery staff, every employee spends 95% or more of their day on the computer. To have just one employee down for more than an hour or two is too painful.

Contact us to review your business continuity plans!

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