What is Your Exit Strategy?

Best practices have shown that we should have an exit strategy in place in case of certain situations occurring that are beyond our control. For example, a business partner called in financial distress last month due to a marital problem in his personal life, which adversely affected his business and before he knew it he was in a crisis situation. If he had the foresight to create an exit strategy before he needed one in his personal life, he could have prevented the situation from escalating and impacting his business.

What about an exit strategy if one of your key employees leaves the company suddenly or falls sick with an extended illness? Do you have an exit strategy in place to cope with this situation and its potential affect on your business? Perhaps you should start thinking about one, if you don’t.

So, I ask you to think about what is you exit strategy in case of a fire, flood or natural disaster? 

What if your server crashes this afternoon or a virus wipes out all of your data do you have an exit strategy in place to address the unexpected when it comes to an IT failure? You may want to start thinking about it.

The key here is to plan ahead for the unexpected. Have an exit strategy because the more prepared you can be for these situations the less likely it will be that the impact will be severe and disrupt your business for any length of time.

Last but not least, remember to have an exit strategy in place to protect your mission critical data, whether it is customer records, emails or confidential business documents. To have your data available is priceless!

With sales contracts, accounting records, marketing materials, business contacts and emails all being stored in digital format nowadays, it has become increasingly important for all businesses to back up their business data, because, in the event of a software/ hardware failure, restoring data from the backup system is a much cheaper operation than rebuilding from scratch. Choosing the right backup service for your business could not be simpler, our experts are on hand to discuss your requirements and understand your business needs. We will tailor a package to meet your specific backup and recovery objectives and your budget. Whether you are looking to simply backup your data securely offsite, protect multiple computers/servers from a single office or unlimited remote offices/ branches all over the world, we can provide you with the right solution.

Business growth brings new challenges for your business. More employees. More revenue. More complexity. And, not least of all, more demands on your business data systems. A top priority for PCIC is to help provide our customers with the ability to easily handle these growth-related challenges.

When you make an investment in backup software, you want to know that you heve got protection. With this in mind, we heve designed our industry-leading online backup service and support to meet your needs, solve your toughest problems, and bottom-line protect your business.

–It Shouldn’t Take a Situation Like the Earthquake in Haiti to Realize You Must Protect Your Data From Catastrophic Loss –

Fires, floods, hurricanes, power outages and other natural disasters can all wreck havoc with business continuity especially if you don’t backup your data on a regular basis.

The dramatic situation in Haiti shows us that unfortunately they need to start from scratch now, rebuilding from the ground up. The hospitals and even the Haitian government is at a major loss because there are no resources, no database, and no data from the field because everything is down. It’s difficult for them to make a decision now about how to move forward because they don’t know where to start.

Studies have shown that when a business is down for more than three days the likelihood that it will go out of business permanently is great. That is because if customers can’t reach you, if employees can’t access the data and must be sent home and if business comes to a grinding halt because you can’t access your data– then you lose income, credibility and customers for the duration of time that your business is down.

By backing up your data regularly, no one has to worry about this situation occurring.

According to PC Magazine, in 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Custer led a small force of soldiers against an overwhelming force of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors at Little Bighorn. Reinforcements were on the way, but Custer thought he wouldn’t need them. Everyone knows what happened to Custer. The moral of his story is that no force can succeed if it stands alone and outnumbered. The same is true of your business data. Without a solid backup plan you may be making your last stand.

You must realize that every business and organizations have unique connections and there is no substitute or source to recreate these connections unless you have a backup for your business assets.

You owe it to yourself and your business to investigate breakthrough backup and recovery solutions that reduce both cost and complexity while increasing IT’s capability to protect critical business data and minimize business disruptions during recoveries. Whether its emails, accounting, or business documents, everything today is digital and backup is essential in today’s business environment because you never know what can happen.