The IT motto: Be prepared

As hurricane season approaches, it's time for businesses to think hard about whether or not their their disaster recovery and business continuity plans are adequate. Anticipate potential problems in advance and create a well-documented, comprehensive plan to address both disaster recovery and continuity of essential business processes. Assess both networks and business models to determine risks, as well as operational and financial exposures. Choose business partners whose resources are readily available for rapid deployment. Inventory critical equipment and applications and assess vulnerabilities. Deploy networks engineered to meet your changing business requirements. Build redundancy to support critical operations. Use network-based services to rapidly restore service. Maintain worker productivity through applications like remote access alert notification services and conferencing. Train and educate your employees to do their jobs in the office, on the road or at home. And finally, continually review, test and refresh your plan.

Learn more about business continuity and disaster recovery:
- read the press release at PRNewswire

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