Many Small Business Owners make the costly mistake of thinking that their company is too small to be affected by a "disaster". Their reasoning? "We only have one server and it is backed up every night" or "All we have are workstations and the only critical one is the one that runs our quicknooks and THAT workstation is backed up everynight".
What we sometimes fail to realize is, if we do have a "disaster" (an employee deleted a criitical file or two by mistake, a virus or malware overtakes our critical workstation or server, or we have a Hard Drive failure), how long can we afford to be down before people (vendors, customers, employees. etc) start to get antzy about getting paid or getting services scheduled?
How long will it take to re-install the hard drive, reload all of the software, AND apply all of the patches needed to get going again? Do we have all of the Software License Keys (MS Office, Windows 7/8/Server, etc), readily available? What happens if the external USB Drive we used for backups gets lost or destroyed as well? Are we "Sunk"?
Many Small Business owners also feel that real time backups (on premise and cloud) and the ability to "spin up" a spare server or workstation (an exact duplicate of the one that has crashed) is "way too expensive" to include in any Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Plan.
I'm here to tell all Small Business Owners that it is "way too expensive" NOT to implement some type of real-time backup (on premise and cloud) AND have a spare ready to spin up at a moment's notice.
I am currently working on a Small Business Managed Services/BCP/DRP Offering that would provide all of the above AND Limited Managed IT Services for about $150/month.
Stay tuned!!! More to come in the next few weeks!!
Mark
Mark C. McCoy, MBA/CISSP
Owner/Sole Proprietor
RMS IT Services
What we sometimes fail to realize is, if we do have a "disaster" (an employee deleted a criitical file or two by mistake, a virus or malware overtakes our critical workstation or server, or we have a Hard Drive failure), how long can we afford to be down before people (vendors, customers, employees. etc) start to get antzy about getting paid or getting services scheduled?
How long will it take to re-install the hard drive, reload all of the software, AND apply all of the patches needed to get going again? Do we have all of the Software License Keys (MS Office, Windows 7/8/Server, etc), readily available? What happens if the external USB Drive we used for backups gets lost or destroyed as well? Are we "Sunk"?
Many Small Business owners also feel that real time backups (on premise and cloud) and the ability to "spin up" a spare server or workstation (an exact duplicate of the one that has crashed) is "way too expensive" to include in any Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Plan.
I'm here to tell all Small Business Owners that it is "way too expensive" NOT to implement some type of real-time backup (on premise and cloud) AND have a spare ready to spin up at a moment's notice.
I am currently working on a Small Business Managed Services/BCP/DRP Offering that would provide all of the above AND Limited Managed IT Services for about $150/month.
Stay tuned!!! More to come in the next few weeks!!
Mark
Mark C. McCoy, MBA/CISSP
Owner/Sole Proprietor
RMS IT Services
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