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| Business Continuity |  |  |  | | | Hurricanes. Floods. Blackouts. In the past few years, these and other disasters have devastated countless unprepared businesses. During these crises, many businesses have not been able to provide quality, uninterrupted services. Timely, full recovery has been out of reach for many.
You know the value of your business and how important it is that it continues to operate uninterrupted and untouched by natural disasters and blackouts. You know that one lost day means far more than lost revenue. It means your reputation. On the other hand, a business that can operate in the midst of disasters earns the repute of being rock solid.
But the creation and maintenance of a sound business continuity and disaster recovery plan is a complex undertaking, involving a series of steps. From business impact and risk analysis to creating a recovery plan, training, and implementation—everything involves a level of complexity that makes companies either sidestep the issue or end up with a faulty or even unworkable plan.
CWI Hosting can help your business create a disaster recovery and business continuity plan, test it, and maintain it. In addition, CWI Hosting also takes steps for disaster avoidance, which can further minimize the risk and provide prevention from factors that can be controlled.
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CWI Hosting breaks down business continuity planning and disaster recovery into two strategies. For disaster recovery, the goal is technical recovery, and the plan is created and managed by developers and engineers. Business continuity’s goal is business process stability, and that plan is developed—in partnership with IT—by business unit representatives.
- Allocating Resources
If your organization needs to dedicate a department within IT to manage business continuity planning and disaster recovery, CWI Hosting can help. Working with the management and IT staff, we can help in formulating what is the appropriate level of disaster preparedness and resources your business needs.
- A Stand-Alone Plan
When disaster strikes, the staff who wrote the recovery plan may not be available to execute it. Make sure that the disaster recovery plan will work, with or without the people who developed it. CWI Hosting works to guarantee that the recovery procedures can be implemented despite the availability of original staff.
- Priorities
CWI Hosting can help you section off business processes, so that in the event of a disaster, the most critical ones can be done first. The same goes for an off-site facility during a disaster. CWI Hosting can help you determine the right people to involve, as well as the right services to recover.
- Align disaster recovery with application development
Ideally, the IT team should incorporate disaster recovery into its application development processes. But often, solution delivery deadlines and urgent bug-fixing demands put disaster preparedness on the back-burner. CWI Hosting can help you develop an isolated test environment that enables full-time access and continuous testing of all systems and applications. CWI Hosting can also help you create and maintain a business-continuity database, including a report on application-testing status. This way, managers will know when a system was last tested and if it demands attention to assure its performance in recovery.
- Real Environment Testing
Regularly reviewing your plan on paper is important—but it isn’t enough. In addition to tabletop tests, CWI Hosting can help you go through mock disasters. These drills are done with actual staff and board members who must set up a replica data center so that it is operational within a few hours.
- Try (and Test) before you buy
When your IT staff gets completely sold on a new technology for creating systems images, CWI Hosting can help you evaluate it before you make the big purchase. This way, your organization can save money and avoid the embarrassment which some half-baked solution may cost.
- CWI’s Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
No one can stop the onset of disasters. But with the help of CWI Hosting, you can stop the effects that they can have on your business. You know the value of your business and so do we. That’s why CWI Hosting is “Where small business grows up.”
| Facts | - 30 percent of businesses that suffer a major IT incident never recover and cease operation within a year.
- 85 percent of businesses have no disaster recovery or business continuity plan.
- 95 percent of businesses have never tested or simulated a Business Continuity Incident
- 46 percent of businesses that suffer downtime estimate the cost of lost revenue exceeds $50,000, and 28 percent estimate it more than $250,000+
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