Power conditioning is one of the lesser-known but equally important functions of an uninterruptible power supply (UPS). Its primary purpose, of course, is to provide a source of electrical energy to maintain continuity of business throughout an interruption in mains electricity or until an alternative source of energy (such as a generator) starts up.
Why the [...]
You are here because you know that your business is in trouble and you want to know what your options are. Bottom line is you want to know what you can do to make this thing work and if it can’t what it will cost you. Do you refinance or seek help with debt.
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The creation of a Business Continuity Plan involves developing a reaction strategy for how an organisation will respond to disaster. This disaster may occur through accidents, natural catastrophe such as earthquake or intentional attacks such as hacking or terrorism.
In plain English, business continuity is how your organisation will maintain its operations in an emergency. A [...]
In a technology-driven world, IT disasters happen. In reality, IT disasters don’t ruin your business; poor preparation does. How do you know if you need a disaster recovery plan? Basically, unless you’re running your business out of a cave, you need one. To be more specific, you should have a disaster recovery plan if:
1. Your [...]
A business casualty loss can result from the damage, destruction or loss of your property from any sudden, unexpected, and unusual event such as a flood, hurricane, tornado, fire, earthquake or even volcanic eruption.
If your property is not completely destroyed, or if it is personal-use property, you will need to determine your loss from a [...]
When working abroad or in remote parts of the world, be it through serving for the armed forces or being part of an aid group, it’s unfortunate that a crisis situation might be not far away. In this situations its absolutely essential that procedures are put in place to help prevent crisis, or give the [...]
OK, so here we are again, all of us, the president on down together for yet another meeting. As I peered around the table I knew what everybody was thinking.” Is this it? Is this the day he tells us it is over? How could that be, we have done everything possible to make our [...]
Disaster strikes when you least expect it but that doesn’t mean you have to compromise customer service or lose valuable business. You also don’t have to be a major corporation to have a plan that will keep your business running despite whatever catastrophe, natural or otherwise, is happening around it.
Regardless of the “storm waging” [...]
Traditionally speaking, tape has been the default format for the backing up of critical organizational data, and a good choice it was. The main benefits being that tapes are relatively stable and portable so you can get the courier or a staff member to come and take those tapes offsite to a secure location, ensuring [...]
“How important is your data?” This is one of the key questions that I ask business owners when I meet with them to discuss their IT. If I get a wishy washy answer I then ask “If that computer’s hard drive failed or if you had a fire and lost all the data on that [...]