20% of all companies will suffer fire, theft, flood or storm damage, power failures, terrorism or hardware/software disaster.

Of those without a business continuity plan:

• 43% will never re-open
• 80% fail within 13 months
• 53% of claimants never recoup the losses incurred by a disaster Source: Aveco
• Less than 50% of all organisations have a business continuity plan
• 43% of companies that do have a business continuity plan do not test it annually
• 80% of companies have not developed any crisis management to provide IT
  coverage sufficient to keep the business functionally effectively
• 40% of companies that do have crisis management plans do not have a team dedicated to disaster recovery
  Source: London Chamber of Commerce

DefiningIT are helping companies tackle these issues with a FREE Business Continuity Audit of their IT systems. This is the first step required to understand how much at risk your business is and identifies areas where improvements need to be made.

Ensuring that your essential data is securely backed up and more importantly 'restorable' is something which unfortunately many businesses overlook and as a result can lead to significant problems.

Technologies exist today which can replicate existing production environments and systems to other servers, buildings, networks etc. allowing businesses to start operating and recover quickly following a disaster.

For your FREE IT Business Continuity Audit of your business or to discuss any IT Business Continuity or Disaster Recovery matter please e-mail info@definingit.co.uk