A recent Survey by Gartner found that 40% of all SMBs will go out of business if they cannot get to their data in the first 24 hours after a crisis. Another survey by Epoch 5 found that most small business spend more time planning social events, than planning for an event that could put them out of business!

Is your company one of these? Do you know that you should have a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan but just haven’t got round to doing it yet? Having an adequate DR plan is more than depending on tape backups: you need to know that should a major disaster occur you can restore your systems quickly and successfully. Most business are so daunted by what’s involved that they often put it off to later – but that can be too late for those businesses that have suffered a major loss.

Disasters aren’t just extreme weather conditions like fire or floods, it could be something as simple as a power cut or server failure, and no business is safe from being affected by some sort of disaster. Not many businesses can afford to be down for an hour - never mind days or weeks.

Putting together a DR plan is different for every business. Each has different areas that are important to them which may not be so important to others. By performing a risk assessment on your business you can identify the areas that you couldn’t survive without. This will direct the creation of the DR plan, ensuring the most important aspects are covered.

Circle IT’s approach to disaster recovery utilises cutting-edge technologies to provide clients with the expertise they need to maintain business operations following catastrophic events. These technologies have only previously been available to large enterprises, but Circle IT is bridging this gap; allowing access to these high-level facilities at SMB prices.

When a disaster happens, Circle IT can deliver a complete cloned image of your server to any site to get you back up and running with minimal disruption. Businesses using our CDR managed service are able to face adversity with confidence.

We will ensure all of your systems are accessible within 24 hours of failure, working just the way they were seconds before disaster. We can facilitate remote/home access for your key employees within minutes, and replicate your IT operations, either on site or at temporary / new premises.

Don’t wait until you have an actual need for a DR plan to start implementing one. Start today by contacting Circle IT to ensure your business survives - no matter what happens.

Circle IT provide a disaster recovery services for over 30 organisations including the following companies:

• Convey UK solicitors
• Harding Evans
• DWF
• GoCompare