DISASTER RECOVERY - A NEW BUZZWORD IN THE BUSINESS WORLD

With number of natural disasters and hurricanes, appearing year-by-year, business continuity and disaster recovery has become an imperative part of every business organization. Businesses have become more alert than ever to maintain a compelling plan or strategy in place in case any disaster strikes their organization. 

A downtime can cost a small company ranging from more than $8,500 per hour (approx.) to more than $686,000 per hour for large companies. This states the need of having a concrete business continuity and disaster recovery plan in place. As a result, majority of the companies have established business continuity plans and keeps updating and testing their plans from time to time in order to ensure its efficacy. 

Here are three major steps to initiate the process of managing the incident when a disaster strikes.

• Mobilize your command center – Firstly, activate your business recovery plan, and figure out for how long your organization can operate in such recovery state. This will give you fair idea, for how much time you have to wrap up crucial tasks.  
• Manage your employees - Do not let employees panic and tell them to maintain their calm and in the meanwhile, carefully document critical processes, including how to operate under such circumstances and how to recover.
• Test - Practicing or testing a plan on a regular basis is important to ensure the effectiveness of the plan. Exercise by thinking variety of possible scenarios and keep updating it. Testing gives you a chance to improvise on any existing shortcomings of Infrastructure Management Services in NY & NJ.

Communication and Transparency

Most of the companies, irrespective of their type and size, encounter at least one disaster in the form of crash or complete shutdown on the course of a year or two. In order to get best out of your existing disaster recovery plan, it is essential to communicate it. Its circulation should not be restricted to internal employees, rather stakeholders, shareholders, customers, partners should also be aware about it. This will help key personnel to understand their role in the DR plan so that they can perform and take self-precautionary measures when needed.