Ensuring Business Continuity with Plan-b
Make sure you have
a place to work and easy access to equipment
What would you do if a crisis happened and you couldn’t get in to your normal workplace?
Many businesses assume that if their office is unavailable their staff will be able to work from home (or another location), phones can be redirected and sufficient equipment can be cobbled together to keep the business running.
The reality is that replicating your normal work environment is never that straightforward. Plus a short outage may turn in to a long one and be totally outside your control.
Based on our customers’ experiences, a good business
continuity plan needs to consider the following:
1. Where will you work?
While you may be able to work from home it is not really conducive to a professional work environment when children and pets are interrupting, you can’t get the team together and everyone is trying to remotely connect phones and computers (using domestic broadband).
2. How will you work?
If you are not able to access your normal equipment, your staff may not be able to continue working. Laptops could have been left at the office and desktop computers may have been damaged or not be accessible.
3. How will you access your server infrastructure?
If your servers are in the same building as your office, you may not be able to access your critical business data. You need to have a plan to connect remotely and have a backup stored offsite that can be restored on to different equipment.
4. Who will manage your recovery?
In a business crisis there will be many things needing to be managed by your senior team. If you don’t have people you can dedicate to restoring your key systems and ensuring your team have a place to work, it’s useful to know you can have external resources on standby.
We have years of experience in getting people up and running when the unexpected happens.
Plan-b has more than 350 workspace seats throughout New Zealand, in Auckland (North Shore and Mt Wellington), Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch. Our standby facilities are on permanent standby and they provide everything you need to get up and running, including:
• Computers, phones and other office equipment
• Servers and infrastructure, and
• Access to recovery expertise.
As a business, we focus on how you will actually work rather than just whether you have a quality backup. If you need a complete business continuity solution, talk to Plan-b.
Contact Plan-b – Phone: 0800 CONTINUE (266 846) or by email:
continue@plan-b.co.nz or visit: www.plan-b.co.nz.
