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For peace of mind your disaster recovery plan can be moved to the cloud with the knowledge that your data is secure and protected by enterprise backup technology. A cloud-based disaster recovery service (DRaaS) can remove the pain of complex recovery plans and decrease the time of recovery without having the huge CAPEX cost that comes with a DR plan in place.

Disaster recovery is one thing that every company needs to consider, but that not many get right. It is one aspect of IT that only gets thought about when it’s actually needed.

In the recent Disaster Recovery Preparedness Benchmark Survey conducted by the Disaster Recovery Preparedness Council, it was found that 75% of organisations are ill-prepared, with 36% having lost one or more critical applications, data files or virtual machines during a 12-month period.

Disaster recovery plans depend on the type of organisation, budget and the type of information that is being backed up. The three critical stages of setting up a disaster recovery plan includes building, defining and testing it.

So why is disaster recovery so important? It is an organisation’s ability to effectively recover business critical data, applications, networks and services after a failure. A business needs these components in order to operate, make a profit and remain competitive. If they are affected by a disaster – from a power disruption failure or system crash, to a natural disaster or accident – the ability to recover these components may be the difference between success and failure of the business.

This is especially concerning for organisations in heavily regulated industries – such as financial services – where there are compliance issues relating to aspects like storage of payment data or PCI-DSS.

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