June 4, 2008 Around 90% of Welsh SMEs lack a viable plan to get their businesses up and running quickly if they are hit by disasters such as fire, flood and catastrophic IT failure, it has been estimated.
Cardiff-based Circle IT surveyed 50 organizations and found that although the majority had disaster recovery plans, most would be unable to cope adequately with a severe interruption to their operations.
The company says that the essential requirements for disaster recovery include the availability of alternative accommodation and equipment for staff, as well as off-site back-ups for replication of servers and key business systems. These should be a continuous data recording system that copies everything on a second-by-second basis throughout the day.
Following the survey earlier this year, Circle IT launched its business continuity managed service to overcome these IT-related business risks by remotely recording server activity continuously around the clock. In the event of a failure or virus attack the company can restore the system and configurations to as it was just one second before the failure, so the client would quickly be up and running again with exactly the same data and program settings.
For more information, see the Circle IT Web site.
