| Natural disasters such as a hurricane, tornado, | | | | recovery services to subscribe depends on the |
| flood, can prevent a small business to perform | | | | recovery requirements of your business. |
| their normal duties. Today, a common electricity | | | | Subscribing to a data recovery service is fine if a |
| glitch could cause problems to businesses with | | | | normal disaster hit and you can successfully |
| internet networks, customer service support and | | | | recover the data in two to four days. There are |
| web applications so that e-commerce transactions | | | | exception when a major regional disaster such as |
| that can not be carried out normally. | | | | a major tornado that can completely wipe out a |
| Nowadays, companies are outsourcing to hosted | | | | number of businesses at the same time. The |
| business continuity services to prevent natural | | | | problem arises when everyone needs to rent the |
| disasters and the everyday occurrences to | | | | data recovery facility because it cannot supply to |
| interrupt their ability to conduct business as usual. | | | | so many business entities. Data center rental can |
| Business continuity planning software allows | | | | be expensive and beyond the budget of most |
| companies to formalize the business continuity | | | | small businesses. |
| framework. Regulated industries including insurance | | | | You should also take into account the valuable |
| companies and financial organizations that need | | | | business continuity tool such as emergency |
| uniformity in how to build their plans will be able to | | | | notification systems. This automated system is |
| take advantage from business continuity planning. | | | | important because it can notify the important IT |
| The business continuity provider must have good | | | | staffs, facilities managers, security directors, and |
| reputation in the market and should been in | | | | managers throughout the building when the |
| business for several years. Most services | | | | emergency happens so that they know where to |
| providers offer three kinds of recovery sites | | | | report. Emergency notification system can use |
| including cold sites, warm sites, and hot sites. Cold | | | | varieties of ways to communicate the |
| sites are a data center space that is rent to | | | | emergency event including telephone calls, text |
| business for storage of their own equipment and | | | | messaging, and email to contact employees, |
| backup tapes. Warm sites and hot sites are | | | | vendors and critical personnel. When you know |
| operationally ready data center for data archival, | | | | your business recovery objectives are, it will |
| data recovery and managed services. | | | | become much easier to find the right services |
| The decision on what level of dedicated disaster | | | | provider. |