Archive for August, 2011

Continuity Disaster Recovery – Prepared Means Money

August 29th, 2011

If a major disaster would ever happen, how secure are you in the fact that your business would be able to keep running and providing people with what they need There are things that you can do to assure that if an event like September 11th would happen again, you would have things in enough order that you’d never have to close your business doors. Let’s say for example that you have a restaurant. Your restaurant just so happens to be close to where the horrific event took place, would you be ok to remain open

If you said yes, than good for you. From a business perspective Continuity Disaster Recovery is one of the best things that you can do for your business. No I do not mean keep your business open and charge more money because you know people would pay it. This is not only illegal but it is also a way to ensure when things settle back down that you will be out a lot of customers. People need to feel normal again, after a disaster. If you keep your business open, never changing the prices, the hours, or the service, than you will give people back their feeling of safety.

Long after the disaster is over, people are going to remember your business as the little bit of normalcy in the nightmarish events. Your customer base, will grow constantly because people in the community will realize just how dedicated that you are to making them happy, and they will continue to come to you.

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Business Database Continuity Disaster Recovery

August 27th, 2011

Business should always have a continuity disaster recovery plan to survive any setbacks that can happen. Most of the modern businesses today have switched and relied on digital technology to run their database and processes. This means that most companies today value their database equally with their assets because it is a tool reference for their business systems. Without the database, the business operations can concur big losses because they have to rebuild their processes all over again which will need further costs or capital.

Planning, production, purchase, and even billing have been served using computer processing that lessens the paperwork and save the most precious component of business which is time. When time is saved, production can double and this means more profit in a shorter length of time for any business. Now, if you do not have a good defense against error or loss of database, then it will definitely take time to rebuild the whole business systems. Meanwhile, if you made sure you have your continuity disaster recovery invested, then recovery period would only take a few hours or days and you get your business up and running again in no time.

To make the illustration more easy to relate, just imagine if your accountant has lost all their files of your business billing, purchasing, payroll and other expenses and earnings in their computer. This can happen usually with honest mistakes never unintentional most of the times. Virus infection, hacking, or other technical reasons can be the main causes of the database breakdown.

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