According to the American Red Cross, 40% of small businesses that suffer a disaster will never reopen for business. Of the 60% that do, another third will close their doors within 2 years.
- Red Cross Business and Industry Guide

Since 9-11, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning
is No Longer Optional

What Constitutes a Disaster?

For some businesses, any significant downtime of a primary server could be considered a disaster. The idea is to prepare for those things you can control and plan a recovery for those you can’t.

Not sure if you’re ready to engage? Take this careful review of your operations to see whether your prepared.

A Thorough Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan addresses these four areas:

1. Mitigation – Look for ways to reduce the potential for disaster within your organization.
2. Preparation – Focus on documenting existing systems, network configurations, hardware and software applications. Decide what needs to be recovered and when.
3. Response – Identify appropriate response for different types of disasters. System failures require different steps than natural disasters.
4. Recovery – Detail the exact events that are required to restore operations and get your business fully functional.

NSPI can help with your Disaster Recovery Solution
When it comes time to restore lost data, what is your willingness to accept data that is a week, a day, or just minutes old? Further, how quickly do you need it restored: now, tomorrow, next week?

The closer than your business needs immediate recovery of current data, the more expensive the cost. That is the Recovery management continuum.

NSPI understands the intricacies of disaster recovery solutions and how those solutions can benefit your business. NSPI has been providing DR consulting and solutions for more than a decade. Our consultants, architects and engineers can help uncover the DR weaknesses and oversights in your infrastructure, processes, and procedures.

Let NSPI manage your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Program and help you find the appropriate place on the Recovery Management continuum.

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Disaster Recovery Solution What does it look like? Disaster recovery planning starts with an assessment of your current systems and infrastructure. It helps you understand what your most valuable and critical information assets are, and managing the risk surrounding those assets. A disaster recovery plan provides documentation of the processes and procedures that support a DR effort. The actual solution may include a simple data backup and recovery solution, or a fully-automated data replication solution with standby infrastructure and servers at a remote site. Having a backup strategy, doing backups every day, and running anti-virus software does not mean that you have a Disaster Recovery Plan.