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Every organisation needs to have effective continuity planning to ensure that all or key systems are available during a crisis. Every business needs to be protected from disasters, which could come in any form from a power outage, systems crash, vandalism, water damage, fire and natural disaster.

Some initial steps can be taken to identify all the single points of failure to help reduce downtime, backup or replicate data, incorporate Dual Systems, Disk Drives and Power Supplies, and setup High Availability through Hot Standby or Warm Standby systems.

However, most organisations now look for Remote Hosting of corporate systems to keep businesses working during a crisis and include Workplace Recovery into their contract to give key staff access to the systems, email, telephones and the vital link to their customers.

It is important to identify key roles within your organisation and have appropriate responsibilities allocated to ensure that a risk analysis is carried out, that practice runs for unavailability of normal workplace and systems are properly followed through and that the whole process is effectively documented.

We can work with you to setup Business Continuity, ensuring you have an effective strategy and to help you through the process of selecting the best services available for your requirements and peace of mind.