{"id":4314,"date":"2021-05-02T03:24:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T03:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/indianapolis-south\/?p=4314"},"modified":"2023-02-09T16:41:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T22:41:33","slug":"crisis-your-office-is-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/indianapolis-in-1023\/blog\/crisis-your-office-is-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis: Your office is on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/indianapolis-in-1023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/02\/2021-06-IT-Guide.pdf\">Read and Download our new guide Crisis: Your office is on fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is something none of us wants to experience. But it does happen.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a small fire in your office. No one is hurt and everyone is safe. But the damage to your workplace is unbelievable. The flames. The heat. The smoke. And of course, the huge amounts of water used to put out the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Good thing you\u2019re well covered on insurance.<br \/>\nAs you\u2019re surveying the damage, you see your server, located near where the fire was. It\u2019s bent and twisted \u2013 clearly, that\u2019s going to need replacing.<\/p>\n<p>Good thing you have a backup\u2026 no\u2026 wait\u2026 the backup\u2026<br \/>\nYou feel your skin go cold as you remember a conversation you had with a member of your team a few weeks ago. They\u2019d noticed the automated backup had stopped working. In fact, it hadn\u2019t worked for some time. You agreed on a new backup needed to be put in place at some point. Till then, you asked your colleague to make a manual backup a couple of times a week onto an external hard disc drive.<\/p>\n<p>That seemed an appropriate thing to do.<br \/>\nWhere did he keep that disc?<br \/>\nYour eyes flick to his desk\u2026 black\u2026 charred\u2026 and dripping with water. The contents of his drawers are on the floor. Including the battered remains of the drive.<\/p>\n<p>With startling clarity, you suddenly realize this has become a catastrophe of epic proportions.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a good question \u2013 if there had been a fire in your office last night, what would you wish you\u2019d got round to doing yesterday?<\/p>\n<p>Think about all your computers and specifically the data on them. Is your data as protected and backed up as it could be? Are you triple sure of that?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the reality: Businesses that lose their data in this way have a greater chance of going under than surviving<\/p>\n<p>If you think that sentence alone is scary, here are some specific stats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>50% of businesses that lose data due to disaster go bankrupt<\/li>\n<li>93% of businesses that lose their data for 10 days or more go bust within a year<\/li>\n<li>And 70% of businesses that suffer a severe fire go bankrupt within five years (30% of them do it after just one year).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But with all that in mind, what are the overdue jobs that you keep putting off that \u2013 if the worst happened \u2013 you\u2019d be kicking yourself about? What would you wish you\u2019d have done this week?<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few to think about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A reliable, robust and verified data backup<\/li>\n<li>Protect your devices<\/li>\n<li>Know what devices you actually have<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are probably many more things you can think of that you\u2019d prefer to get done now, just in case disaster does strike.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you could make a list and prioritize them.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to keeping your business safe, please don\u2019t put off the things that you really should do today. Remember those stats we gave you earlier on. The businesses that survive are the ones that are prepared.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/indianapolis-in-1023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/02\/2021-06-IT-Guide.pdf\">Read and Download our brand new guide now<\/a>. It\u2019ll show you the things you need to make a priority to keep you protected from any disaster.<\/p>\n<p>If planning for disaster recovery seems like too much work at an already hectic time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmitsolutions.com\/indianapolis-south\/contact-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">give us a call<\/a>. We\u2019d love to help you get these vital precautions in place, so you can sleep more peacefully at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read and Download our new guide Crisis: Your office is on fire&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":5408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[47,48,49,50],"class_list":["post-4314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indy-guides","category-cmit-indy","tag-backup","tag-disaster-prep","tag-disaster-recovery-plan","tag-it-disaster-recovery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/indianapolis-in-1023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/indianapolis-in-1023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/indianapolis-in-1023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/indianapolis-in-1023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/indianapolis-in-1023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/indianapolis-in-1023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/indianapolis-in-1023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/indianapolis-in-1023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/indianapolis-in-1023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmitsolutions.com\/indianapolis-in-1023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}