Many technology organizations occasionally speak of the importance of a BCP (Business Continuity Plan) in the context of IT only.That normally involves talking about having standby equipment, off-site copies of all of your data and perhaps an entirely ready-to-go standby site in order to allow your business to carry on should there be a major disaster.
Of course, these are all extremely important areas to consider and at Server Sentry, our data recovery solutions and other related services will help you to cover off many of those topics.
It’s important though to say a few words about the need to think about the BCP in the context of things other than technology too.
For example, you may need to take into account:
1. The loss of key expertise, if certain personnel had been injured or killed in said disaster.
2. The loss of much of or your entire legacy paperwork.
3. The destruction of your stock.
4. Managing the reaction of your stakeholders and their financial holdings in your company.
5. Potential shock and trauma to your personnel.
These are just a very few of the many non-IT issues that you may need to cope with in the event that you were unfortunate enough to experience a disaster that massively affected your organization.
That’s why an integrated BCP is critically important and even more so is a determination to validate it. Some organizations see the production of such a plan as being a largely administrative exercise and one that might be necessary to keep external auditors happy. As a result, these plans sometimes lack practical substance and to put it bluntly, they may not work in the hopefully unlikely event somebody needed to try and implement it.
So, take the construction of your BCP seriously and we will be only too happy to advise you further on how to go about it.
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