Business continuity and disaster recovery is extremely important for all businesses regardless of industry or size and rigid planning is required to mitigate the business impact should disaster strike.
The need for a business continuity plan within a company is crucial to ensure the continual running of the business after a disaster. It is a well-known industry reality that for every five businesses that experience a disaster two will go out of business within five years from the disaster date. This makes stark reading and underlines the importance of ensuring businesses have a robust, organised and manageable business continuity plan in place for such disasters.
In today’s business environment disasters can come in various guises ranging from acts of terrorism to the threat from natural disasters and with the competitive landscape becoming more ruthless, business plans and strategies have a great significance, as they are the plans that will ensure the future trading and success of the business.
When a business decides to move into the cloud they are placing their business’s data, applications and software in the hands of a cloud computing provider. It is therefore important to ensure that this cloud provider has appropriate business continuity and disaster recovery plans in place because when a company transfers to the cloud environment they are placing a significant amount of their business resources within this environment. Therefore, it is important to ensure and understand what will happen if that cloud environment becomes unavailable due to disasters either natural or deliberate.
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