Data backup cannot be neglected on any system. This includes manual and computer based systems. How long would you business survive an interruption?

As companies examine the ROI of business continuity planning, a key step to justifying the investment is having a clear understanding of downtime costs. Downtime can result in millions of dollars of lost revenue and productivity, as well as far reaching damage to the enterprise reputation and credibility.

Your office building just burned down. Where is your data, your software, and your licenses? Where are your written procedures to get your business up and running again? It does not have to be a computer failure to be the cause of your disaster. Fire, water, weather, and malicious acts, are some of the potential events that you must defend against.

The preferred scenario is to not have any recovery needs, but most systems experience some sort of failure that requires data recovery. Comprehensive plans and procedures are imperative for retaining all of your data in any event. We use a number of straightforward procedures that provide a safeguard for your data. Whether your business requires a simple in-house backup or demands to be up and running 24x7, we can design a solution that best fits your business needs.

These are the services we use to create a disaster recovery solution:

  • Disaster event assessment
  • Disaster recovery planning
  • Procedure development and documentation
  • Data recovery
  • Data re-creation
  • Server recovery
  • Off site data replication
  • Off site data archival
  • Off site servers with replicated data
  • Off site facilities (available in certain locations)

Consider this - the National Fire Protection Agency estimates that 43 percent of businesses directly affected by a disaster never reopen, and an additional 29 percent close after three years. But have companies traditionally paid attention to those frightening figures? Apparently not. A survey of IT managers by Gartner Dataquest in the winter of 2000 revealed that more than half of the organizations surveyed still did not have a basic plan to mediate the effects of a disaster.

Deep Thoughts by ANIC:

We would much rather take the Boy Scouts approach -"Be Prepared" and avoid having to be your "Salvage-ation Army".