recent years to perform this role. MSPs have the technical personnel to design, implement and manage complex disaster recovery projects. Additionally, MSPs have the server, storage and network infrastructure in place to manage a true disaster recovery plan. To keep costs manageable and make disaster recovery services, such as data storage and redundant servers, available to small- to medium-sized businesses, MSPs build shared, multi-tenant IT infrastructures that host multiple companies on the same hardware and network equipment which helps keep costs affordable and advantageous for its customers” (Chisholm, 2015). The MSPs can be very valuable for companies that aren’t large enough or don’t have the resources to hire a team of IT professionals
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a business’ operations could be severely impacted. Many companies could have business halted for several days from a natural disaster, or an internal crisis such as a virus or malware taking over their systems. If a business hasn’t put a disaster recovery plan in place and a company’s warehouse, office, or factory has been damaged or destroyed it could take months for them to recover. Also, like previously stated, if there is a disaster that prevents employees from being able to get to work the company could be out of operation for a while. There are ten steps for a company to follow in order to have a successful disaster recovery plan. These steps include: devising a disaster recovery plan, monitoring implementation, testing the disaster recovery plan, performing off-site backup and storage, performing restoration testing, backing up all devices (laptops desktops, etc.), being redundant, investing in theft recovery and data delete solutions, installing antivirus, and a hiring managed service provider. However, following all ten of these steps could cost a company a lot of money. This might be why there are about 60% of businesses in North America that currently do not have any sort of disaster recovery plan in place for the event of a natural disaster or something similar (Chisholm, 2015). These companies might have looked at the cost of a disaster recovery plan and decided it’s worth the risk to not fork out the money for a “what-if” plan. However, if any of these companies were damaged by a disaster, they would not have anything in place to resume IT services after their crisis and could in worst case go out of business because of their loss. For every day a business is out of commission due to a disaster or event they will be losing money. Forbes explains, “Companies spend an average of $686,000 per hour when experiencing downtime” (LaPedis, 2015).
a business’ operations could be severely impacted. Many companies could have business halted for several days from a natural disaster, or an internal crisis such as a virus or malware taking over their systems. If a business hasn’t put a disaster recovery plan in place and a company’s warehouse, office, or factory has been damaged or destroyed it could take months for them to recover. Also, like previously stated, if there is a disaster that prevents employees from being able to get to work the company could be out of operation for a while. There are ten steps for a company to follow in order to have a successful disaster recovery plan. These steps include: devising a disaster recovery plan, monitoring implementation, testing the disaster recovery plan, performing off-site backup and storage, performing restoration testing, backing up all devices (laptops desktops, etc.), being redundant, investing in theft recovery and data delete solutions, installing antivirus, and a hiring managed service provider. However, following all ten of these steps could cost a company a lot of money. This might be why there are about 60% of businesses in North America that currently do not have any sort of disaster recovery plan in place for the event of a natural disaster or something similar (Chisholm, 2015). These companies might have looked at the cost of a disaster recovery plan and decided it’s worth the risk to not fork out the money for a “what-if” plan. However, if any of these companies were damaged by a disaster, they would not have anything in place to resume IT services after their crisis and could in worst case go out of business because of their loss. For every day a business is out of commission due to a disaster or event they will be losing money. Forbes explains, “Companies spend an average of $686,000 per hour when experiencing downtime” (LaPedis, 2015).