The Facts:

43% of companies that suffer a major loss of computerised data never re-open, 51% close within 2 years, and only 6% will survive long-term.

Minimise Risks

Naturally, prevention is better than cure, and we actively encourage our clients to protect themselves and minimise risks by adopting the following:

• Schedule daily backups and take these offsite.
• Online backup via secure internet to remote backup server.
• Dual Redundant power supplies in Servers.
• Hot Swap Hard Drives in Server in RAID 1 configuration for o/s.
• Hot Swap Hard Drives in Servers in RAID 5 configuration for Data.
• Hot Swap Spare Hard Drive as RAID Standby.
• Firewall.
• AntiVirus Software.
• Spam filtering.
• A rolling 3-5 year programme of Server Upgrades.

These measures can, at marginal additional cost, minimise potential downtime to your business. It seems ridiculous that failure of a £75 PSU in a server can result in many days downtime where the PSU cannot be locally sourced or is out of stock.

At a more strategic level, we can assist your organisation plan to ensure business continuity in the event of a disaster. We can assist you develop and document the processes, policies and procedures necessary to restore the critical operations that will enable resumption of normal business via effective voice and data communications.

What happens if disaster strikes?

On a practical level, all of our HIPERACTIVE clients have access to Hiper’s spare stand-by Dell PowerEdge 2850 Server which can be deployed in the event of a disaster – to that extent we can provide you instantly with something to restore your backed up data onto in the event of server loss.

We have been involved in assisting clients recover from situations where PSUs have blown and cannot be sourced quickly, where hard drives have failed, where floods and break-ins have occurred and the like. Our HIPERACTIVE clients have peace of mind that should disaster strike the HIPERACTIVE support arrangements they have bought into will see them through.