Friday 15 August 2014

Creating A Workable Plan For Disaster Recovery

By Frankline Bell


Business planning includes more than just creating a strategy for future growth. You also need to have concrete plans in place to deal with all types of problems and disasters if they should occur. This could be anything from the loss of power for several hours or days or perhaps a fire or even a natural disaster such as a flood or earthquake. While you never know when a disaster might occur, creating a continuity plan for your business can help you deal with just about any situation.

A business continuity plan is an essential tool for all managers. This plan consists of five different types of plans, and some of them deal with your information technology or IT, and some deal with other aspects of business. For instance you will want an occupant emergency plan in place to help assist your employees in a time of crisis or emergency. This might include finding a safe place after an earthquake or perhaps how to evacuate in case of another type of emergency.

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.

For so many businesses, most of the crucial information is stored on computers or perhaps in cloud-based software. When problems occur with your technology, you need a plan in place to deal with these issues. One part of the business continuity plan will be an incident management plan. This plan will provide employees with steps to take in the event of many different types of incidents, from a minor power outage or a problem with hardware or software or perhaps a company-wide technology problem. If the problem is extremely serious, then the fifth part of your continuity plan will be utilized and this is your disaster recovery plan.

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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