From 1953 to 2019, New Jersey experienced 51 major disasters, including tsunamis, earthquakes, and tornadoes. As a result, businesses that weren’t properly prepared lost proprietary data, experienced data breaches, and some never recovered. Having a business go down due to a natural disaster is financially devastating, as the average cost of downtime for a business
New Orleans residents have disasters at the forefront of their thoughts always, as they’re the most concerned household in the United States regarding living in a high-risk flood zone thanks to Hurricane Katrina. And of course, the effects of Hurricane Ida don’t help with the constant sense of impending doom. Hurricane Ida resulted in
Though it’s not common for Philadelphia to get hit by natural disasters, when they do hit, they hit hard. FEMA has put Philadelphia as one of the top 5 riskiest counties to live in. And now, with it having recently been impacted by Hurricane Ida, businesses in Philadelphia are putting new emphasis on disaster recovery
For a business in Florida, a disaster can strike at any time causing severe disruptions. In fact, just 10 months into 2021, Florida has already had 18 weather-related disasters, which resulted in over $1 billion in losses. The coastal counties are especially susceptible to several types of natural disasters every year, including hurricanes, tropical storms,
Increased digital adoption, natural disasters, the COVID-19 epidemic, and corporate mergers all contribute to a greater need for preparedness for disaster recovery. Statistics show that outages lasting a full day have affected more than 50% of businesses in the last five years. When it came to major losses, 96% of those who had a
Disasters are uncommon, but when they do happen, the consequences can be catastrophic. During an emergency, normal IT operations such as data processing, communication, virtualization, and network and data center management are disrupted. For instance, according to the US National Archives & Records Administration, 93% of firms that lose their computer systems for 10 days
Disaster recovery solutions do not work. Every DR specialist knows this. In today’s world, there are three major factors that change and influence disaster recovery (DR) concepts: Complexity, Overload, Cyber. In a DR’s life cycle there was a shift of perception that changed from a “nice to have” solution to a “must” solution. In the