The 2024 summer storm season has been hitting the U.S. with a vengeance, bringing punishing heat domes, tornados, fire “red flag” warnings, and tropical storms along with a staggering damage price tag. As of July 9, 2024, the nation has endured 15 confirmed weather/climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information.

More severe weather is predicted to be in store this summer from strong hurricanes, more tornados, catastrophic flooding, and more.

Why Proactive Disaster Recovery is Key

Every time an unplanned impact occurs — whether it’s a natural disaster, power interruption, or extended IT services disruption — businesses get a gut-wrenching reminder of the importance of a tested, repeatable, working disaster recovery (DR) solution. Specifically, a solution that guarantees your applications will function the same way as they do on any average day, avoiding the potential repercussions that can dramatically impact your business. In unplanned disruptions, revenue streams may suffer, productivity can plummet, and data may be lost — all of which can threaten the overall health and stability of the organization. That makes proactive disaster recovery planning essential.

With a well designed and tested disaster recovery solution, organizations can mitigate the impact and damage caused by unexpected events. It’s a proactive approach to risk management that enables businesses to identify critical functions and processes, prioritize resources and implement strategies to maintain operations during crises. While no one likes to contemplate the possibility of disaster, ignoring the risks is the worst possible option for preserving the integrity and function of your business.

Questions to Check Your DR Readiness Level

Disaster recovery focuses on failover or restoring IT infrastructure, data, applications, and delivering operational readiness in a disaster within agreed upon stated recovery metrics. If you’re not sure whether you have a comprehensive, repeatable disaster recovery solution, here are questions to consider:

1. Are you confident that your current DR solution can recover your IT systems within your required recovery objectives?
2. Do you have the best data protection strategy available? (It’s your data; own it!)
3. Is your solution in alignment with today’s business needs? 

If you answer “no” to any of these questions, it’s time to look for a fully managed DR solution governed by proven Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

A fully documented and tested DR solution is a business imperative in 2024. Statistics and the growing incidence of business disruptions clearly demonstrate the reason. According to the 2023 Global Crisis and Resilience Survey by Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC), 96%of 1,812 business leaders reported disruptions within their organizations over the past two years. Of these, 76% described their most severe disruption as having a significant impact on operations.

Another survey, the 2024 IBM i Marketplace Survey found record-high levels of cybersecurity concern surveyed worldwide, while application modernization, IBM i skills, high availability, disaster recovery, and all things cloud also piqued the interest of this year’s survey respondents. 

Connectria Can Help

As a leader in managed Disaster Recovery services, Connectria offers a comprehensive and streamlined solution to ensure your business has the best protection, data replication, and recovery services. In the event of a disaster, Connectria’s technical teams jump into action: validating replicated environments in the Connectria Cloud, confirming systems availability for all production servers, verifying database integrity, and ensuring network connectivity and security controls are in place.

Led by our experienced team of experts, Connectria’s careful planning and proactive approach reduces the potential financial impact of unexpected events while securing your data and minimizing downtime. We provide complete fail-over protection, ensuring your business is fully prepared to quickly resume operations in the event of a major disaster or other disruption.

Connectria also offers customers the ability to put our team “On Alert” at NO additional cost with no declaration or usage fees. An alert status means a disaster is probable and Connectria should start pre-validation activities of the target environments. Connectria DR customers have this option available anytime a disaster is imminent.

Don’t risk your company, or your customers’, future. Let Connectria be there to help your organization in the event of a disaster or other disruption. Contact us to learn more about how Connectria can manage your business recovery so you can focus on more important issues, like the safety of your families in a disaster.

Email sales@connectria.com and one of our DR experts will personally reach out to help answer your biggest concerns. You can also call us at (800) 704-4058.