Business continuity

BT Data Centre Services

Why care about business continuity?

Worryingly a fifth of companies suffer a major disruption (e.g. fire, flood, power, terrorism, IT failure) every five years (Business Continuity Institute). Business interruptions are costing the UK £3.9bn per year, and the average business suffers 11 virus attacks per day.

System or web site failures or buildings being unavailable can have a huge impact on profit and reputation.

92% of companies that suffer a disaster don't survive.

You cannot afford to be offline or not trading. To survive you need to be always on. A business continuity plan will:

Maintain your availability (avoid losing touch with customers). Business interruptions cost UK business £3.9bn annually
Retain your profitability (just think of the revenue lost if an online retailer loses its web site, or if an ordering or billing system fails)
Maintain your reputation - being off-air damages customer perception and encourages customers to go elsewhere
Manage your information (e.g. data security to avoid being taken off air by a virus attack). Virus attacks average 11 per day per organisation
Enable you to continue working if your buildings become unavailable

The chances are that you cannot afford to be offline, so you need a business continuity plan to help maintain your profitability and reputation.

How can we help?

By moving your servers and applications into a data centre we can provide safeguards that might be impractical or cost-prohibitive in your own premises. These include guaranteed power, cooling, and light, physical security, and ultra-resilient Internet connections. We can facilitate taking more regular backups and enable you to recover more quickly following a failure.

We could also help you replicate your servers at different data centres, allowing your business to recover in seconds rather than hours if a problem arises.

Using a data centre also reduces the risk from your buildings becoming unavailable from power failure, fire or transport problems.

With centralised systems and reliable internet connections, your business could continue to work from other buildings or with staff working from home.

We can provide a specialist to help you assess how you could maximise your business continuity using a data centre. Fill in the online enquiry form or call 0800 022 3068 and we will call you back and arrange for someone to visit.

Your business

Which of your systems would you consider to be mission critical and how long can you last without them?

No-one likes to think that a disaster will happen to them, but ask yourself what would the impact be if;

You couldn't print for an hour? You couldn't get email for an hour?
Your web site or order handling system was off-air for a day?
You lost your Internet connection?
Someone dug through the power supply to your building?

Do you have anyone responsible for business continuity and is there a business continuity plan in place to safeguard your systems and applications?

The chances are that like everyone else, you cannot afford to be offline, so you need a business continuity plan to help maintain your profitability and reputation.

Who will benefit?

All businesses need a business continuity plan, and our data centre services could be right for you, particularly if you;

Here are typical examples of savings we find businesses can make:

Have mission-critical systems or data
Trade online or via telephone sales and IT failures will mean lost sales every hour
Have particular needs for compliance that can't afford lost data e.g. finance, accounting, legal services

See how secure hosting can help your business

Watch our short video: Ensuring business continuity with secure hosting, and we'll explain the risks your business may face, and how we can help you.