Your Disaster Recovery Plan

By Frankline Bell


While disaster may never strike your business, if some type of catastrophic failure affects your company, you need to feel confident that you have a plan in place to deal with the consequences. A disaster could include anything from an earthquake or flood to some type of man-made catastrophe such as a fire. Knowing that you have a business continuity plan in place brings a great deal of peace of mind.

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 by a team of managers, but it usually is a better idea to have an IT expert come in, study your business and then create a business continuity plan for you. This can be a cost-effective way to ensure that every aspect of your business is considered and every type of emergency has been addressed. IT consultants also are excellent resources in general, as they can create a solid IT plan for your business that helps you grow and change as technology improves over the coming years.

If you need managed IT services in Portland, Always On IT can help. Our IT consultants offer business IT services for Multnomah County and business IT services for Washington County and the entire Portland metro area. In addition to creating your business continuity plan, we can create a business IT plan specifically for your company and offer full IT support, including computer repair, computer updates and all types of support.




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