Are you prepared for another major hurricane? Is your business?
If you don’t remember the 2017 hurricane season lets recap it for you:
Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Maria. 2017 was the most active hurricane season since 2005. Many people and businesses were very complacent after not having any major storms for more than a decade. We were prepared. Our facilities were safe and prepared with fuel to run for weeks, our data was all backed up and we have contingency and business continuity plans in place.
Not everyone was adequately prepared. We always suggest a full business continuity plan for our customers, not just backups on hard drives. Full backups take time to run and rarely get tested. Hard drives need to be swapped. In the days before a hurricane sometimes people forget these important steps.
What is the difference between a business continuity plan and backup you ask? Simply this: a business continuity plan does not just backup the data but also sets your business up to run in short order in the case of failure. A regular backup must be restored. The OS and applications may have to be reinstalled before the data can be restored and it may take time, especially if it must be downloaded from the internet. Our business continuity appliances protect with both onsite and offsite copies of the machines we can spin up at a moment’s notice. We also test them every day to make sure they work.
So schedule some time with us and tell us what kind of data you think you have.
