An organisation that has a business continuity and disaster recovery strategy is far more likely to survive the effects of a major incident than those that do not. 

 
Unforeseen major incidents such as the major BT London tunnel collapse in April 2009 which disconnected 75,000 services for a week, and the Cumbria floods later the same year that denied businesses access to their premises and destroyed equipment, data and stock highlight the vulnerability of business operations, and the need for an effective disaster recovery strategy.
 
Although natural disasters such as floods and pandemic flu outbreaks are infrequent events, there are many more common eventualities that affect a business somewhere on a daily basis, and have similar devastating effects on business continuity.
 
A power surge or prolonged failure of power or communications, a building fire, theft of equipment or data, a building security alert, or a major system outage due to critical equipment failure, viruses or a systems security breech can all impact upon your business reputation and its future success if an effective disaster recovery plan has not been implemented.
 

Being prepared is crucial in protecting against disaster.
Being prepared is the answer. A disaster recovery plan does not have to cover every eventuality or every business process, just those that are most business critical so as to bring a resumption of core operations as quickly as possible with the minimum of business disruption.
 
It´s just good business practice
Various organisations have statutory or regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes Oxley Compliance as part of their risk management and corporate governance. Others may use Business Continuity Planning as a competitive advantage through their demonstration of greater customer care.
 
Let Syscomm help reduce your business risk with our disaster recovery and disaster management services, to help your organisation plan, prepare and test the recovery of your essential IT systems in the event of a disaster.