What is a Disaster?
The Hosted Continuity Disaster Recovery solution is designed and managed to significantly reduce risk for the customer in the event of a localised, or site wide failure. This ensures an organisation is secure in the continuedprovisioning of services - both to their customers and internal staff.
Below is an indication of the many forms of a disaster to a business.
- Access denied to the facility, or subsidiary worksite (flood, fire in adjacent buildings)
- Contributory Supplier Failure
- Virus or Internal attack
- Software Failure or Human Error
- Misplacement of Critical Documentation
- Government imposed travel quarantines
- Financial Institution Failure
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- Natural Disaster (Fire, Flood or Earthquake)
- HAZMAT incident
- Insurer Failure (HIH etc)
- Network Failure
- Terrorism
- Tsunami
- Industrial Action
- Utility Failure (electricity, communications)
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When a disaster strikes the business will be impacted, for example:
- Clients cannot get support, orders or order updates, account information etc
- Negative influence on customer relationships
- Potential new customers may be turned away / unable to communicate
- Lack of access to critical systems
- Company branding of the organisation could be adversely affected
- Payroll, delivery schedules, customer data, stock, orders etc
- IT systems and staff may be unable to function within the business due to nature of disaster
- Recovery of data may be hours or days old, resulting in lost transactions and lost business
- Total loss of data may result depending on severity
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As such it is imperative to respond as quickly as possible to mitigate the severity of the disruption.
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Related Information
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