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Hurricane Season: Is Your Business Prepared? Detroit MI

Here are seven habits that CDW LLC (CDW), a provider of information technology (IT) solutions to business, government and education, advises organizations adopt to best prepare their IT systems for a hurricane or other major disruption.
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944 52nd Street Southeast
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330 E. Maple Rd, STE # 141
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111 S Old Woodward Ave
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Hurricane Season: Is Your Business Prepared?

Hurricane Season: Is Your Business Prepared?

Faced with these alarming predictions, many IT departments may be asking what they can do to keep their business functioning during a major disruption such as a hurricane. A well-managed disaster preparedness plan can help prevent costly downtime and reduce inconvenience to customers. Here are seven habits that CDW LLC (CDW), a provider of information technology (IT) solutions to business, government and education, advises organizations adopt to best prepare their IT systems for a hurricane or other major disruption:

  1. Assess your current plan. Conduct a business impact assessment that prioritizes critical processes for the entire organization. For example, processes that need to resume within 24 hours to prevent serious mission impact, such as call center and customer relationship management, shipping and billing or resource planning, could receive an “A” rating.
  1. Take steps to protect data. Organizations should back up data frequently to ensure that data integrity and applications are not jeopardized. Organizations should also store multiple copies of data off site, at a remote location, a long distance from the primary data center.
  1. Review power options. Organizations should add uninterrupted power supplies (UPS) to keep the most essential applications running. In addition, cooling systems should be supported by backup generators. Temperature spikes can cause unplanned interruptions when operations are most critical.
  1. Identify and appoint a cross-functional preparedness team. Create a team to design and test the disaster recovery plan, as well as a recovery team, which will participate in recovery activities after any declared disaster.
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