The importance of an effective disaster recovery strategy

With the ever-growing prevalence of unanticipated disasters, both natural and man-made. We thought it was important to reiterate the importance of ensuring you have an effective Disaster Recovery strategy in place.

Disaster Recovery planning is critical to your business continuity. According to the 2021 SMB Cybersecurity Report from ConnectWise, 32% of SMBs have suffered a cybersecurity attack in the past 12 months.

However, only 49% of businesses have implemented any formal disaster recovery strategy or plan to defend against unanticipated disasters. This can be extremely costly for businesses, as the average total cost of an attack according to the report stands at £92,256, almost doubling from 2019’s average (£47,755). Given these unsustainable figures, the question for businesses is not whether they need a disaster recovery plan, but which plan best suits them.

What is Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) & how can it help?

DRaaS from Nviron involves replication and hosting of your applications and data to provide failover in the event of a man-made or natural catastrophe. Nviron takes overall responsibility for disaster recovery and manages the entire process on your behalf, so in the event of a disaster, your organisation can continue to run your applications as normal – they run from Nviron’s cloud instead of from your disaster-affected infrastructure, minimising your recovery time after a disaster.

How does DRaaS benefit you?

DRaaS from Nviron takes some of the burden of planning for a disaster off your shoulders and puts it into the hands of our disaster recovery experts. This can make it much more affordable than hosting your own disaster recovery infrastructure, in a remote location, with IT staff standing by in case disaster strikes. If a disaster doesn’t happen, that expensive second infrastructure and staff never get used.

Is DRaaS right for you?

DRaaS from Nviron is designed for SMEs that are growing and require flexibility or have no internal resources or bandwidth to manage the businesses DR requirements. To discuss your DRaaS requirements in more detail, please Click Here to speak to one of our specialists. Alternatively, existing customers can contact their designated Account Manager.