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Businesses should ensure continuity by 'backing up religiously'
02/03/2009
Business continuity has been suggested as one of the most important things for businesses to consider when thinking about the security of their managed hosting and IT systems.
Writing for the Globe and Mail, Daniel Muzyka, dean and RBC Financial Group professor of entrepreneurship at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia, states that a recovery plan is essential.
He encourages businesses to back up their IT systems religiously and to ensure that it is stored in a separate location.
Mr Muzyka also claims that this can help with security issues as well as business continuity.
He encourages firms to "assume the worst and ask yourself: Where do you go? Who goes there? What do they do? How do you get back in business?"
Last week, Bharat Thakrar, head of business continuity for BT Global Services, warned that fragile IT systems can be a real problem for businesses and play a large part in crippling a firm.
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