What is Business Continuity and Why Should You Care?

The technology industry loves buzz words, and Business Continuity has become another favorite. Simply put, business continuity is taking proactive measures to ensure critical business functions are always available. If your server breaks, you’re hacked, or your entire office is wiped out in a natural disaster, is your organization prepared to rebound with minimal disruption to customers? If your company isn’t covered by a business continuity plan the odds are stacked against you.

With 70% of small businesses incurring data loss from common mistakes each year, a fully loaded business continuity plan gives users peace of mind. However, the right solution is more than just an investment to protect your company. It can actually strengthen your worth. Going through the process of building a business continuity plan forces you to evaluate your company’s strengths and weaknesses. It also opens the lines of communication in the workplace so that employees understand company protocol in the event of a huge disaster or a simple hardware failure. Properly safeguarding your data also raises client and stockholder confidence in your company, which typically translates to a competitive edge and loyalty – not to mention the likelihood of reducing insurance premiums. So, make the wise investment and begin building your business continuity plan today!

What Distinguishes Our Service From Everything Else

  • Simplicity: We’ve made it easy to protect your business by offering one service that covers your data backup, network security, system monitoring, and backup servers. Why waste time and money sourcing multiple products from separate vendors when you can have an integrated package from one trusted provider?

  • Value: In today’s tough economic climate organizations are looking for smart ways to save money without sacrificing quality. By combining services into a single package we are able to provide a complete continuity plan for less than you would pay if purchasing these services separately from several vendors.

  • Bullet Proof: Our BDR services are backed by the industry leader Zenith Infotech. With several strategically placed data centers, and the ability to deliver you a fully functional copy of your programs and data overnight anywhere in the continental US, you can rest assured your data and your business can survive virtually any disaster.

    • The Encompass Suite

    Data Reliance

    Conventional backup systems store your files and in some cases snapshots of your server’s operating system and applications periodically. Our system employs a continuously updated copy of your data, operating system, and applications. If your server suffers a serious hardware failure we can have you back up and running in minutes like nothing ever happened. There’s no waiting hours or even days for equipment repairs. The system keeps both local and off-site copies so you can continue to operate even if your internet connection is down too. Other backup systems require an internet connection to access an off-site data center. In the event your office is damaged a fully operational copy of your data and applications can be shipped overnight to any location in the continental US – enabling you to resume business with minimal down time.

    Data Guardian

    Our online data backup system is available as a stand alone option for organizations in need of an affordable and reliable alternative to tape and other backup solutions. This service automatically backs up your data in real time both locally and off site to a number of redundant servers. Information is stored using military grade 448 bit encryption, insuring protection of sensitive records even in the event of a physical drive theft or network intrusion.

    Data Sentry

    Today’s organizations rely on highly available, secure computing environments to efficiently and safely conduct business. Firewalls are a key component of a secure network and must be managed properly to ensure they protect your critical information assets. Firewalls are configured to allow “good” traffic in and to keep “bad” traffic out. Firewalls are updated continuously to support changing business requirements. Firewall management is extremely resource intensive and requires a high skill level. Because of the effort and complexity involved, a majority of firewall breaches are caused by the mis-configuration of firewall rules and policies themselves. We work with industry leading firewall products from Cisco, Sonicwall, and Untangle.

    Data Armor

    Picture this – it’s 6AM Monday morning and you discover the air conditioning quit over the weekend and your server overheated and crashed. You have patients arriving in an hour and your practice is effectively operating with a notepad. You may be writing yourself a prescription before the day is over, but this could have been averted. With our 24/7 system monitoring we could have alerted you when the temperature started to rise and safely shutdown your equipment before damage occurred. Our automated system continuously monitors key application, performance, and environmental parameters. We’re able to catch problems before they become nightmares so you aren’t blindsided.