In a technology-driven world, the reliance upon IT is increasingly critical and, as such, presents significant potential operational and financial risks which prudent managers must plan to overcome.

It is important for any business to understand what to do in the event of a disaster and whose responsibility it is to restore systems and data in the minimum time frame.

With the protection of a company’s data assets becoming the personal responsibility of company directors, businesses should be focusing even more on their internal data protection strategies.

However it is not enough to rely on this to ensure business continuance. IT disaster recovery should be a significant part of a business continuity plan.

Being able to recover your data and IT systems in a safe, secure and timely manner offers many benefits - but all that this can be undone if other elements of the business do not function during and directly after a disaster.

There are many different definitions of ‘disaster recovery’ and it can sometimes be mistakenly defined as business continuity. In DR terms it is important that businesses today seek to achieve disaster avoidance and, where that is not possible, rapidly recover the business and its assets.

There are certain disasters that can't be planned for such as extreme climate change, fire, flood and other events which regretfully have become a regular occurrence in an unpredictable and often threatening world. But there are other, just as damaging issues that can arise from theft, carelessness or intentional damage resulting from the introduction of viruses or hackers to the network.

Whatever the budget, Datashare’s services and ‘Cerberus’, the ISO27001 accredited disaster recovery systems will provide the correct solution for your business.

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