While MSBs need to be mindful of their budgetary restraints, skimping – or worse, avoiding – an appropriate recovery plan is like inviting disaster. With an effective DR plan, MSBs can maximize disaster recovery efforts to maintain data integrity and productivity.

1. Disaster Recovery Risks
of Mid-sized Businesses TOP 5
Disaster Recovery Risks
of Mid-sized Businesses TOP 5
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2. While MSBs need to be mindful of their budgetary
restraints, skimping – or worse, avoiding – an
appropriate recovery plan is like inviting disaster.
With an effective DR plan, MSBs can maximize
disaster recovery efforts to maintain data
integrity and productivity. Among the five top
risks that MSBs face in planning for DR are:
• Lack of a disaster recovery plan
• Inappropriate data center location
• Inadequate resources
• High costs of DR technology
• Response and recovery time

3. The first step MSBs must
acknowledge is their need for a DR
plan. In business, downtime results in
lost revenue and productivity, so it is
in every business’ best interest to
maintain peak uptime.
Lack of a Disaster Recovery Plan 1

4. While there is no absolute
formula for choosing an optimal
secondary site, geographic
diversity is essential.
2 Inappropriate Data Center Locations

5. Every DR solution relies on
trained, experienced staff to
maintain, monitor and enact DR
efforts. With limited budgets and
smaller staffs, most MSBs do
not have experienced DR
personnel.
3Inadequate Resources
However, skilled personnel
is critical to maintaining an
effective DR initiative.

6. Without a doubt, MSBs have invested heavily in
their onsite technology, and of course, want to
continue to use these investments. However, DR
requires two locations and the costs of a secondary
site with leading-edge technology and a high
level of redundancy can be exorbitant.
4High Costs of DR Technology

7. The costs of having an experienced person at
a secondary site may not be in the cards for
all MSBs. However, without someone onsite
to quickly initiate failover processes, response
time can be long – increasing the
amount of downtime, reducing
productivity, and ultimately
impacting profitability.
Response and Recovery Time 5

8. Implementing a DR plan can
be a challenge for MSBs given
its costs and implementation
issues. However, without an
appropriate DR plan, MSBs
run the risk of lost data,
disrupted services, and
excessive downtime – all of
which are detrimental to
business. While the costs may
be high, the risks are higher.
MSBs should take the
necessary steps to ensure
that DR is part of their
corporate plan.
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9. Don’t take the risk.
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