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Are You Prepared to Weather an Outage?
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Have you ever truly considered what would happen to your business if all your data was inaccessible for an extended period of time? With Hurricane Irene threatening this is top of mind and a good time to reevaluate your business continuity and disaster recovery plan. |
This post on Smallbusinesstechnology.com: 8 Questions to Ask Before the Lights Go Out reviews simple steps related to your IT and computer systems in preparing for any possible downtime.
As you will read, business continuity before, during, and after a disaster takes preparation. A hurricane warning, for example, does not provide enough time to adequately prepare for continued business continuity.
If your business doesn't yet have a thought out and planned business continuity approach, we advise these immediate-term steps related to your Copier and IT related systems
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Make sure all Copiers are unplugged even if they are attached to a power filter. Better to be safe than sorry. |
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Consider unplugging your personal computer, monitor and printer if they are not attached to a surge protector. |
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Elevate your computers/hardware off the floor if you are in a ground floor/ flat zone/flood prone area. |
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Use your copier or scanner to scan any sensitive documents and save them to a thumb drive or a hosted email account to keep just in case. |
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Take the latest, verified, successful Data Backups with you off-site. |
Please email or call 1-877-362-3555 for more suggestions on how to access your vital business documents remotely in the future.
Most importantly, wherever you are - be safe!
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