Backup, Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

All business people understand the importance of mitigating risk within their business, but the impact of IT systems is very commonly overlooked as a serious business risk.

 

Precision IT has been working with many clients over the years to develop comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solutions whereby disasters, such as fire and theft are recoverable from an IT standpoint.

 

The Brisbane floods have recently highlighted the requirement of all businesses to have adequate offsite backups. Even a city location cannot guarantee safety from all disasters.

 

Some of our clients in Brisbane, whilst lucky enough not to have flood water enter their premises, haven’t been able to access their offices for days. Remote access also hasn’t been available due to power and communications being cut for safety reasons. This could be caused by other natural disasters, not just flooding.

 

An adequate backup and DR strategy should protect your business from loss of data from situations rendering your equipment unusable (fire, theft, flooding), by allowing all systems and data to be recovered at a time in the future.

 

Backups should always have at least offsite storage factored in. In the internet age, backing up to online storage is highly dependable, cost-effective and scalable. There are also professional firms who provide secure backup tape pickup/drop-off services. We recommend either depending on your requirements.

 

With the heavy reliance on IT systems for all business operations, Backup & DR strategies need to extend into Business Continuity.

 

Business Continuity looks into reducing the lead time between disaster and recovery, minimising the impact to business operations due to IT downtime.

 

As an example, Precision IT’s Cloud infrastructure supports clients performing backups via the internet which can be restored temporarily, semi-permanently or even permanently into Cloud virtual infrastructure allowing your business to be back online in hours rather than weeks.