How long could your business continue without the computer system? Many businesses are not even aware of how much they rely on their computers, at least until there's a problem!

Computers are often used when answering queries, looking up prices, stock levels or lead times, and of course taking orders – if your staff can’t access your computers, they may not be of much help to your customers – who may go elsewhere!

So how much would the business suffer?

2 hours - a short interruption can be pretty annoying, but if you've got twenty staff sitting around unable to work, that's forty hours of wasted wages!

4 hours - any computer problem that requires an engineer to visit could easily leave you stranded for this long, & that's if your support arrangement has guarenteed response time - which many don't!

8 hours - even if you have support with guarenteed response times, an engineer would still have to actually fix the problem when he arrives, & if this involves restoring data from backups, this can take hours & hours!

If you need your computers to continue trading, then your computers are mission critical - are they protected adequately?

As a very first step, as your systems adequately backed up? Many people believe that business continuity simnply means doing backups, but this is only a first step - speak to our experts to find out what else you need to do.