u
72% of businesses have had significant
interruptions due to power outages
u
52%
due to computer hardware problems
u
34%
due to human error
u
34%
due to lightning strikes
u
17%
due to flooding
u
14%
due to fire or explosions
u
12%
due to hurricanes
78%
of businesses that suffer one or more of the above catastrophes and
don't have a Continuity Plan in place.....are
gone within 2 years. |
Business Continuity,
Disaster Mitigation, Disaster Recovery....
However
you say it, protecting your IT infrastructure from downtime can be one
of the most important initiatives your business undertakes to ensure its
longevity.
Your
systems needs are many and varied, and lack of attention to any one of
the items listed below can bring your business to its knees.
A responsible, secure and reliable Business
Continuity Plan should take all of this into account.
While not everyone can afford to have their infrastructure hosted in a
tier one datacenter, ensuring that the following twelve checklist items
are covered will go a long way to ensure that your business isn't in the
78% listed on the sidebar.
Disaster
Avoidance Checklist :
-
rAre your servers running
on an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) that can carry the
system for 15 minutes or more?
-
rAre your servers running
on a dedicated electrical circuit to ensure that other
devices or appliances won’t trip the breaker?
-
rIs your server circuit
line conditioned and surge protected?
-
rIf you have a prolonged
loss of power, do you have a backup source of power?
-
rIf your primary data
communication line goes down, do you have a backup data
connection?
-
rAre daily backups made
of your critical, non-replaceable data and applications?
-
rHave you verified that
the backups are reliable if needed for restoration?
-
rDo you have a secure,
off-site storage location for daily, weekly or monthly
backups?
-
rIf your facility were to
experience loss of cooling, do you have an alternate way of
keeping server temperatures under control?
-
rIf one of your business
critical servers were to fail, do you have a “hot”, “warm”
or “cold” backup server readily available?
-
rIf one of your critical
pieces of communications hardware, such as a switch, router
or firewall were to fail, do you have a readily available
backup?
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