Disaster Recovery Team - planning, mitigation, & recovery

	An explosion in your building knocks out the electricity for five weeks...
	A violent windstorm blows the roof off of your building...
	An employee forgets to turn off the coffee pot before leaving at night...starts a three alarm fire...

Disasters such as these are seen regularly on the evening news. These disasters create graphic pictures that often spell a drastic change in the lives of many. Despite the strongest efforts, no one can avoid these events completely. That's why it's important to realize an investment in time and planning before a disaster strikes can dramatically impact the efficiency of your recovery.

At Disaster Recovery Team, we specialize in keeping you in business in the event of a disaster. That means we help you develop and implement a plan that accomodates the way you do business. We work with you to create a plan the prioritizes your critical activities necessary to produce cash flow and ensure the long-term survivability of your business.

Business Risk Analysis	Business Continuity Planning
Recovery Management	Hurricane Tracking and Preparedness
Mobile Hot Site Data Centers	Temporary Rental Equipment

Almost everyone would agree that the worst time to make decisions is under pressure. If your building was destroyed by fire, could you calmly and efficiently coordinate the relocation of the business and quickly implement a plan to maintain day-to-day business activities? Documenting your recovery plan in advance will not only speed up the recovery process but will ensure that the recovery effort is as effective as possible, thus reducing the amount of lost work and money.

Recently, management can be held personally liable to the stockholders for disaster losses by not following reasonable and prudent management practices. It is critical to limit the financial impact that a disaster can have on the bottom line.

No matter what business you're in, a host of unexpected events can interfere with your business or shut down operations entirely. Regardless of the type of disaster you may face, the amount of time it takes to get operations back on-line depends upon how well you are prepared. You need to plan for all aspects of a recovery from maintaining payroll and receiving supplier shipments to relocating employees and equipment.

Businesses that survive disasters do so because they've planned for business disruption and implemented their contingency plans.

"It costs an average of $17,000 to re-create 20MB of sales and marketing data, $19,000 to rebuild the same amount of accounting data . . . $98,000 to reconstruct this much engineering data. What's more, re-creating this data can take from three to six weeks, during which time your business may be hemorrhaging badly."*

"In fact . . . half of all companies experiencing computer downtime lasting 10 days or more will either go out of business or be sold . . . "*

A University of Texas study showed that of those companies experiencing a catastrophic loss without a tested recovery plan:

43% Never Reopen

51% Close their Doors within 2 years due to bankruptcy or acquistion

Only 6% SURVIVE!!!