Most business owners have heard of Disaster Recovery (DR) but have they heard of Business Continuity? Which one is more important?
If you think about it, your business is less likely to experience an event that would be considered a disaster such as loss of your facility due to a major event than a smaller but as critical event such as a loss of a critical system. Most companies put in place what they can afford such as tape based backup.
Business owners need to know Disaster Recovery planning can also be setup to cover protecting your business when a critical server goes down. There are different levels of investment to achieve higher levels of protection.
With increased internet bandwidth, most companies can also launch offsite backup in an affordable way. See companies like http://www.carbonite.com">www.carbonite.com and http://www.mozy.com">www.mozy.com offer affordable solutions.
Business Continuity handles your technology needs for those times that are not considered a disaster but it can become disastrous to your client relationship. If your business does not rely on much technology then you probably have traded of efficiency for not having to worry about all this.
The best way to implement Disaster Recovery that also addresses Business Continuity is to use systems that provide local backups, local virtual images of your critical servers and integrate offsite synchronization of the local data. If you have a local failure, local virtual images go into an active mode and impersonate your failed server, allowing your IT staff to repair the failed server. The local backups get rid of the need to rely on unreliable tape based backups. The offsite replication allows you to recover your IT systems to the most recent image replicated to the offsite DR facility, typically in a day or two. See solutions from Zenith Infotech LTD.
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