Aug 20, 2014

Creating A Workable Plan For Disaster Recovery

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.

For so many businesses, most of the crucial information is stored on computers or perhaps in cloud-based software. When problems occur with your technology, you need a plan in place to deal with these issues. One part of the business continuity plan will be an incident management plan. This plan will provide employees with steps to take in the event of many different types of incidents, from a minor power outage or a problem with hardware or software or perhaps a company-wide technology problem. If the problem is extremely serious, then the fifth part of your continuity plan will be utilized and this is your disaster recovery plan.

While you can create these plans yourself, it is often wise to have an IT consultant create these plans and offer out-sourced IT management. An IT consultant can handle all of your technology issues and create a plan that is tailored to your company. Every company is unique, so each business continuity plan also must be unique. In addition to creating these plans, your managed IT support provider also can consult with you concerning ways to improve your overall information technology plans and strategies.

The experts at Always On IT, for instance, can create comprehensive plans that account for business continuity and disaster recovery in case of an emergency. They also provide managed IT support for all types of businesses, including offering IT consulting in Multnomah County, Washington County business continuity services, Portland IT consulting and much more. They also can help with comprehensive computer support and network support.




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