Business Continuity in a Technology Dependent world.

It is the daily risk to IT infrastructure and not the threat of natural catastrophes that should be driving organizations’ to implement their business continuity plans.

Information has become the central asset of the majority of US businesses and with the ever increase of cyber attacks on networks, and growing dependence of organizational functions on advanced information technology, most businesses need to take a serious review of their business continuity and disaster recovery plans and strategies.

According to business analysts 94% of businesses that needed to invoke their business continuity plan in 2011 did so as a result of IT problems. The major causes were hardware failure, infrastructure loss, and malicious intent by employees.

Businesses need to re-prioritize what is considered a risk by realizing that mundane incidents can have a major impact and cause serious business disruption.

Business continuity needs to be a part of the ongoing IT strategy and rather than looking at constant upgrades and changes to IT systems, business need to consider Fully Managed Private Cloud Computing Solutions.
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