Series Introduction – Business Continuity Planning Essentials
Data is essential for all types of organizations today, so ensuring access to mission critical applications and data following a disaster is crucial. However, business continuity and disaster preparedness are about so much more than that.
Business Continuity Planning – Keep Business Moving
Many organizations today have limited tolerance for application downtime. If your employees or customers do not have access to essential applications and data, there will be a direct impact on productivity and revenue. While this sounds obvious, many organizations do not consider the actual costs of downtime for a business.
Business Continuity Planning – Keep Customers In The Loop
Managing customer relationships is obviously critical to the ongoing success of your business. As such, it is important to craft a plan for distributing information to your customers during and following a disaster event. The scope of your customer communications plan will vary widely depending on the nature of your business.
Network Attached Storage – What Does It Mean For You?
Having a storage device for all your important files and folders is a necessity in today’s business environment. Whether you’re a small business or an enterprise, a network attached storage, or NAS, device can enable you to easily share files and folders with others on your local network.
Tornado or Extreme Storm – Natural Disaster Business Survival Series
Tornadoes are extreme weather events characterized by funnels of wind that can exceed 100 MPH. They usually travel no more than a few miles before dissipating and are about 250 feet in diameter. They can, however, be much wider and travel much further. Under the right conditions, multiple tornadoes can form in a single given […]
Human Error “Hurricane Humanity” – Natural Disaster Business Survival Series
People make mistakes. They will pull the wrong plug, click on the wrong link, open the wrong email attachment, or completely botch a major systems upgrade. They trip, spill and sync unapproved third-party apps to the network. They visit unsafe websites. They accidentally or maliciously delete business critical files. It’s only natural, we are humans.
7 Additional Key Concepts – Natural Disaster Business Survival Series
We can’t control when, how, where or even to what degree a natural disaster or human error may impact a business or facility. We can, however, be prepared to quickly pick up the pieces and get back to work in an expedited, safe manner. Below are a few more quick tips to round out our […]
Building Fire and Flood – Natural Disaster Business Survival Series
Fires and floods within an office or building can range from small incidents of short duration to complete destruction of the facility.
Natural Floods – Natural Disaster Business Survival Series
Floods typically result from excessive upstream precipitation and/or runoff. They can range from flash flood, which typically occur on smaller rivers, to slower rising floods across large low-lying areas.
Series Introduction – Natural Disaster Business Survival Guide
Every business has to prepare for the worst. Those that don’t may never fully recover from a disaster. But not all disasters are created equal. And not all businesses are at risk of every kind of disaster.