Business continuity: avoiding outages and recovering fast
An outage only stops the business when nothing was planned. Monitoring, preventive maintenance, an incident plan and backup turn an incident into an ordinary event.
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What is an IT disaster recovery plan, and how does a small business build one?
An IT disaster recovery plan (DRP) sets out how the business gets its tools and data back after a serious incident: ransomware, a fire, a server that won’t come back, an account wiped by an intruder. For a company of five to fifty people it fits in a few pages: what to restore first, how quickly, from which copies, and who does what. It is only worth something once it has been tested.
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What is the difference between retention and backup?
A backup is a copy of your data. Retention decides how long you keep it. Confusing the two is one of the most common reasons a restore fails on the day you need it.
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NGO business continuity: how do you keep your missions running through an IT outage?
For an NGO, an IT outage is more than an operational inconvenience: it can block critical field missions, and preparing in advance is the only way to limit the damage.
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How do you resolve an IT outage quickly?
Identify what is broken, assess the impact, then find the real cause, in that order. Outages that drag on are rarely the most complex ones: they are the ones where a step got skipped.
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Why does your business need an IT incident management plan?
An IT incident management plan lets you respond quickly and in an organised way when something goes wrong, without improvising under pressure.
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How do you choose an IT provider for emergency interventions?
Choosing an IT provider for emergencies is not something to improvise: the criteria that matter are responsiveness, a clear scope, and a relationship built before the crisis.
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How can you keep your business running through an IT outage?
An IT outage only stops your business if nothing was put in place beforehand. Continuity is prepared before the incident, not during it.
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Preventive IT maintenance: how do you avoid outages before they happen?
Preventive maintenance means monitoring and servicing systems regularly so that outages stay rare, rather than dealing with them one by one after the fact.
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System monitoring: how do you detect anomalies before they cause an outage?
Active system monitoring lets you catch IT problems early, often before users notice anything is wrong.
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