Business continuity plan - cloud storage
According to a Chamber of Commerce publication, 93% of business experienced irregular intrusion or an
ICT virus in the previous year. 61% experienced a computer-related crime.
Critically - and showing the urgent need for any business, large or small, to
have a business continuity plan - 70% of businesses that had a disastrous data failure went out of business
in the next year!
[Source: David Frost, Director General of the BCC, March 2003.]
But using media such as CDs, tapes, or USB sticks, does not help, if the backups are not done regularly
and also kept securely off-site! So we really do recommend that you make internet backup a key
component of your business continuity plan.
Do you belong to the more than 90% of companies who do not have a backup strategy in place, let alone
a full business continuity plan?
Yet you have fire insurance, right? But what good is it getting replacement computers after a fire if
you don't have the data? Like, all your customers are going to send you a statement of what they owe you?
And unlimited online backup is going to cost you far less than your fire insurance!
Take the first step in your business continuity plan today and protect your data with regular backups. To
get you under way, we have an offer where you can get free backup software and try out unlimited
cloud backup of all your business data. Why not
try that as your first step, as an evaluation? You will see how simple it is to protect data, and carry out
a restore on demand.
Remember that the national average is that 60% of business critical data is held on laptops, and these
often fall outside the "backup strategy". Ensure that your business continuity plan takes account
of this, as it is so easy and affordable to assure regular laptop backups.
Phone numbers
An essential component in your business continuity planning process is to allow for the worst case scenarios:
what would you do in the case of fire or other serious disaster?
The insurance will provide for replacement furniture and computers, and - if you've taken our advice on cloud
backups - you have your data. But while the insurance will also buy you a new phone system, you could be up and
running at replacement premises using the previous phone number, if you have really planned ahead.
We can provide UK local phone numbers for just about
any area code in the UK (and for lots of other countries too!) that can be redirected at the click of a mouse
to where you wish to answer the calls. So that could be in your office today, and, if you had a fire overnight,
to a business centre or to your mobile phone tomorrow.
