Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning

Get ready for trouble

When a disaster strikes, will you be prepared? Disaster recovery and business continuity planning is vital to an organizations survival. Not all events are hurricanes, floods, fires or tornados. Less newsworthy events are the far more common, unplanned outages occurring everyday and include electrical, plumbing or facility failures.

Can your business survive just one of these events for even a few hours or days? The impact to your business can be staggering.

• 40% of all SMBs will go out of business if they cannot get to their data in the first 24 hours after a crisis.
  -- Gartner



• 43% of companies never resume business following a major fire. Another 35% are out of business within 3 years.
  -- U.S. National Fire Protection Agency



• "Small companies often spend more time planning their company picnics than for an event that could put them out of business."
  -- Katherine Heaviside, Epoch 5

Universal has extensive disaster recovery and business continuity planning to help guide clients through the process of understanding where to start and most importantly, how to finish and test their plan.

We take a step-by-step, best practices approach in starting with your core business needs through completion and testing of the plan. Here is how:

Know what you do

It's crucial to understand what your business does to stay in business. Sounds simple but identifying the most critical resources is the first step in developing a plan. Ask yourself:

• Have we determined our most critical business lines and services?
• Which of our applications or services cannot tolerate loss of data or unavailability "no matter what"?
• Do we have capabilities in place to ensure a timely recovery of critical applications, people, data, platforms and networks?

Prepare for the unexpected

One of the best ways to ensure data survival and business continuity is to make sure it’s somewhere else if a disaster strikes.

Universal’s focuses on disaster recovery back-up and restoration technology early in the plan stages. Even if the plan is incomplete, this needs to be done first. We deliver disaster business continuity planning to ensure your business has the means to continue delivery of service that accounts for people, facilities, data, systems and processes at the time of a disaster.

Unlike many other providers, Universal brings together the two concepts of back-up and restore planning with business continuity planning to ensure your business can access and use the data to conduct ongoing business operations.

Practice makes perfect

Once the business continuity and recover plan is done, it is important to test it. Universal can help clients fine tune and regularly test their plans and provide modifications for your growing business.

A Continuous Relationship with Universal

With Universal, you gain a dedicated business partner. We provide comprehensive technological solutions that are custom designed for your business with only your needs in mind. Our philosophy is to treat each client’s needs as an on-going program and develop solutions around emerging technologies and services.

Let Universal’s Disaster Recovery and Planning Services help you and your business take the important steps needed to stay in business.