Business Continuity Planning and Data Recovery Services for Bloomsburg, Hazleton, Wilkes-Barre, and Beyond

Don't Believe These 3 Big Myths about Creating a BC Plan

More than perhaps ever before, small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) need to get serious about business continuity planning. Given the cloud's vulnerabilities and having more employees working from home, the risk of critical data loss today is severe. This can start with reviewing your current backup and disaster recovery processes and looking for holes (34% of small businesses never even test their backup systems), as well as prioritizing creating a BC plan and looking for trustworthy outside resources to help you.

Business recovery isn't something small businesses need to worry about

Unfortunately, this is a big myth, and it's pervasive. The hard reality is that small businesses most likely have the fewest resources to fall back on in the event of a disaster. And some disasters are inevitable. Even if your business location is not at high risk for fire, flood, or other natural disaster events, even simple human error can cause significant data loss.

Creating a BCP is complicated

While ideas like risk management and disaster recovery planning can be intimidating for small business leaders whose talents lie in other specialties, creating a business continuity plan doesn't have to be overwhelming. Experienced IT services providers and other business planning specialists can do this work for you on a consultant basis, so you don't have to stress about the details.

Business continuity planning is too expensive

The point of a business continuity plan is to give businesses continuous access to their technology and data, no matter what. Zero or minimal downtime is the goal. And this doesn't have to cost a lot in consulting fees, new backup hardware, or more software. With cloud technology and the use of a managed service provider, disaster recovery doesn't need to be an intimidating or expensive endeavor.