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Other events
such as fire, flood, computer malfunctions and
information security disasters could all have a
substantial effect from which a company may never
recover.
In July 2007
over 7,500 businesses in the Oxfordshire,
Gloucestershire and Worcestershire area were affected by
the floods, with many subsequently losing out on
business and with unrecoverable damage for some of the
smaller companies*. A company losing as little as a few
days of downtime and business can ultimately impact it’s
long term growth and profitability.
With this in
mind it is vital for companies to implement a DR
(Disaster Recovery) plan to ensure such disasters do not
have a catastrophic effect on their business. The advice
given by managed IT service provider, Rockford IT, and
other business consultants and IT providers, is to have
a clear, thorough and well tested DR strategy. This way
if the worst should happen most businesses could recover
their business critical systems, even as soon as the
next day.
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