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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Your Disaster Recovery Plan

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.

Your business continuity plan can be just as important as any other type of business planning. In general, these plans contain five elements, some of which deal with what employees should do in variety of crises and some are created to handle information technology issues. One part of the plan will focus on employees and what they should do and where they should go in case of many different emergencies. This is called an occupant emergency plan, and this can help with evacuations or how to handle disasters and other types of emergencies.

After a disaster has occurred, you will still want your company to keep going, and a continuity of operations plan sets the stage for what to do to ensure that you lose as little business time as possible. Along those lines, your business resumption plan will help you more easily get your business back up and running after something occurs. This ensures you can meet your clients' needs and help your employees reorganize and continue working in a variety of situations and conditions. When plans have been created, there is far less confusion and stress for everyone.

Two parts of the plan solely deal with your information technology, and for most businesses, your technology is the backbone of your operation. An incident management plan will help you deal with a variety of problems that might occur, such the temporary loss of power or perhaps having your system hacked or infected with malware. If a true disaster occurs, then your disaster recovery plan will be brought into play.

These are plans that can be created in-house, but it's often better to hire an IT consultant to develop a business continuity plan. Your IT consultant can take a good look at all aspects of your business and come up with plans that meet the needs of your business. In addition to helping with these plans, it is wise to consider outsourcing your IT in general. Expert IT consultants can help you develop a solid information technology plan that maximizes your output and helps your business grow.

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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