Having an IT disaster management recovery strategy in place, however, can be a real saving grace when it comes to resolving your IT issues. But does your company need one?

What is IT disaster recovery?

IT disaster recovery is the procedures or policies a business has in place to return to normal operations and regain access to affected IT systems following a disaster.

From hardware failure, to security breaches, to natural disasters, disaster recovery covers anything that has the potential to hinder the availability of IT infrastructure.

Do I need an IT disaster management service ?

As disasters come in different shapes and sizes, all types of businesses are at risk of experiencing one during their lifetime. With this in mind, having an IT disaster recovery strategy in place can be the difference between a quick recovery, or longer periods without IT systems.

Whilst it can be tempting to have an internal disaster recovery plan, creating and maintaining one can be extremely time consuming for the individual or team responsible for it. And by utilising the services of a team of disaster recovery specialists, you can put your mind at ease that any disaster response will be conducted thoroughly and efficiently.

If you’re still not convinced on disaster management as a service, we’ve outlined some of the benefits, here:

Protect your and your client’s data 

No matter if you’re a law firm, a retail company or a team of accountants, large portions of the data you hold will be sensitive data that you wish to keep safe and secure. After all, your customers rely on you to do so.

With a disaster recovery plan in place, you can be safe in the knowledge that any data you hold can be retrieved in a matter of minutes and kept safe.

Avoid Disruption 

By having an IT disaster recovery strategy you can be sure any major downtime caused by a disaster is minimised, allowing you to get back up and running within a short period of time.

This means you can keep your business running smoothly, keep your clients happy and keep up that maximum productive output.

More efficient than a backup

You might be thinking, what’s the difference between disaster recovery and restoring data from a remote backup?

Whilst a data backup allows you to access a copy of your data should you need to restore it. An IT disaster recovery service mirrors a full image of your servers. Meaning you don’t need to spend time reinstalling an operating system or copy files, which you have to do with a backup.

If you’re interested in how our disaster management service can your business, please get in touch with the expert team here at Prism.