---
title: Is It Time For A Business Continuity Plan?
description: Is It Time For A Business Continuity Plan?
---

[On Time Tech](https://ontimetech.valeonetworks.com/blog)

# [Is It Time For A Business Continuity Plan?](https://ontimetech.valeonetworks.com/blog/is-it-time-for-a-business-continuity-plan)

 Written by [Lance Stone](https://ontimetech.valeonetworks.com/blog/author/ulisticadmin) | Nov 4, 2015, 4:26:52 PM

Traditional backups in corporate environments consist of tape, disk, and NAS devices – just to name a few. These methods do work, however, they are slowly fading away with maintenance and recovery time as key factors. For professional grade backup we recommend a Business Continuity plan. Formulating a Backup Disaster Recovery (BDR), we would advise a professional or a consultation with an expert to evaluate your organization’s network infrastructure.

When a disaster strikes businesses scramble to recover their resources.

- According to IDC, it takes an average of seven hours to resume normal operations after a data loss incident.
- Hartford’s 2014 Business Continuity findings indicate 59% of businesses have a formal, documented business continuity plan. 
    - 33% have an informal plan that’s verbal and undocumented.
    - 8% have no plan at all.

Testing your backup is extremely time consuming – a business continuity plan will help you develop a surefire way to get your organization back up in running.

**Disasters do happen.** What actually causes downtime? Yes, hurricanes and tornadoes do their fair share of damage, but that only accounts for a small portion of downtime. Network outages account for 50 percent of downtime, and human error accounts for 45 percent. Lastly, the No.1 cause of lost data: hardware failure.

Whatever the cause, however, you want to be prepared in-case of an incident to mitigate these scenarios as much as possible.

What do our friends at Datto recommend?

- Hybrid cloud backup
- Image-based backup
- Instant local and off-site virtualization
- Screenshot backup verification

If you value the protection of your client’s and business’ data, keep it secure. **Don’t be left scrambling to recover your data after disaster strikes. Contact {company} at {email}, or give us a call: {phone}**

[View full post](https://ontimetech.valeonetworks.com/blog/is-it-time-for-a-business-continuity-plan)

```json
{
  "@context" : "http://schema.org",
  "@type" : "BlogPosting",
  "author" : {
    "@type" : "Person",
    "name" : "Lance Stone"
  },
  "dateModified" : "2024-01-10T16:37:10.789Z",
  "datePublished" : "2015-11-04T16:26:52Z",
  "headline" : "Is It Time For A Business Continuity Plan?",
  "image" : {
    "@type" : "ImageObject",
    "height" : 316,
    "url" : "https://6060188.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6060188/Blog%20Images/Imported_Blog_Media/Disaster-Recovery-Plan-1.jpg",
    "width" : 547
  },
  "mainEntityOfPage" : "https://ontimetech.valeonetworks.com/blog/is-it-time-for-a-business-continuity-plan",
  "publisher" : {
    "@type" : "Organization",
    "logo" : {
      "@type" : "ImageObject",
      "height" : 60,
      "url" : "/hs/hsstatic/content_shared_assets/static-1.4092/img/default-amp-logo.png",
      "width" : 60
    },
    "name" : "On Time Tech"
  }
}
```