Assemble an IT Team and Assess Your Situation
First, businesses should assemble a team to build out a proper disaster recovery strategy. It's recommended that the team be comprised of the small business owner and at least one person assigned to budgeting, as well as any internal IT staff. If there is no internal IT staff, it’s very important to partner with an external IT solutions provider. This contractor can help SMBs overcome the multitude of challenges they face today, like needing to keep IT systems running with little or no downtime, while simultaneously evaluating new technologies.
With a team in place, it’s time to ask the hard questions to determine the types of events most likely to wipe out mission-critical business data. Do you live in Florida where hurricanes are a common occurrence, or New England where snowstorms can shut down cities for days? At this point, you will be able to determine which items are transportable so you can rapidly recover should any disaster scenarios come up.