Schools, hospitals, hotels, and office buildings all have fire escape plans or emergency exit contingencies. The routes are posted in almost every room, signs caution against using elevators, and smoke detectors are placed to give the most possible warning. Fire drills are conducted regularly to ensure everyone knows where to go and what to do in an emergency. Countless lives have been saved because of these guidelines.
Savvy business leaders and IT professionals know that a disaster can endanger an entire company. Researchers at the University of Texas indicate that, following a calamitous loss of data, 43% of businesses don’t even reopen, 51% shut down within two years, and only 6% survive beyond that. Those are convincing numbers. Is your enterprise willing to gamble on that? If not, then it’s crucial to have a disaster recovery plan in place.
Some small businesses think that “disaster recovery” is just a matter of making [...]