On the heels of Hurricane Isaac sweeping across the southeast, President Obama declared September National Preparedness Month. Coming in the midst of hurricane and tornado season, this well-timed proclamation is helping to raise awareness about what families and businesses can do to prepare for a natural disaster emergency.
Disaster Preparedness for Businesses
But disaster preparedness and business continuity has been on the minds of small business owners from New York to Dallas, and beyond, for some time. Whether the emergency is man-made and economic in nature, or resulting from a natural disaster such as a hurricane, tornado, earthquake or flood, business owners must consider every aspect of their company in regard to business continuity.
For instance, companies must make contingency plans to:
- Establish alternate working space
- Get essential personnel to work if they've been evacuated from their homes
- Continue providing services to their customers, who are also facing difficulties in an emergency situation
- Accept or make payments in a timely manner, including issuing paychecks to employees
- Recover lost data from computers, servers, RAID arrays and virtual servers that may have suffered shock, water or fire damage during the disaster
- Set up a new network and desktop computers, with the proper back-ups and security measures
Disaster Preparedness Means Knowing Who to Call
An ongoing theme of Disaster Preparedness Month involves communities and neighbors working together to survive an unforeseen disaster.
Your odds for more successful business continuity in the face of a disaster improve substantially when you have the right partners in place to help in an emergency.
With offices in New York and Dallas, 24 Hour Data has seen it all and we're well-equipped to provide data recovery services with a 99.9 % survival rate in an ISO-certified clean room environment. This September, make us part of your business continuity/disaster preparedness plan, and rest easy knowing that we'll restore your mission critical data and restore your company's IT network fast. Disaster recovery is just business as usual for us.
