You can’t prevent disasters from happening, but you can minimize their impact on your business by putting the right technology and plans in place before disaster strikes. Roughly 96% of organizations experience at least one incident of meaningful downtime — the question isn’t whether something will eventually go wrong, it’s whether you’re ready when it does.
Why Is Business Continuity Critical?
Are your servers backed up, tested, and verifiable — not just scheduled? Is all your data stored on-site, where a single fire or flood could take out your only copy? Could your business weather a major equipment failure caused by a hard drive crash, lightning strike, ransomware attack, or theft? Each of those scenarios means real, measurable loss of revenue and productivity, and the businesses that recover fastest are the ones who had a tested plan before they needed one.
Our team conducts a risk assessment and business impact analysis specific to your business, sets real RTO and RPO targets based on what you can actually tolerate, and builds backups on the 3-2-1-1 method — three copies, two media types, one off-site, one immutable — so your employees can get back to work as quickly as possible when disaster strikes.
Benefits
- Peace of mind
- A team of experts in backup and disaster recovery
- Protection for your mission-critical data
- Risk assessment
- Strategy and implementation to reduce downtime
- A customized strategy for your specific business
Want the full 10-step planning process, including tabletop exercises and communication protocols? See our complete business continuity planning checklist.
Business Continuity Resource Library
Explore our in-depth guides covering the most important business continuity questions for Chicagoland businesses:
- Business Continuity for Oil & Gas Companies
- Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP) for Government Agencies
- Business Continuity for Health Care Practices
- Business Continuity for Financial Services Firms
- Business Continuity for Manufacturers
- How to Conduct a Business Impact Analysis
- Continuity of Operations Planning: A Practical Guide
- Supply Chain & Vendor Continuity Risk
- Severe Weather & Disaster Preparedness for Chicagoland Businesses
- Business Interruption Insurance: What It Actually Covers