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Hurricane Season: Is Your Business Prepared? Memphis TN

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.
River City Consultants Inc
(901) 452-6869
447 Cumberland St
Memphis, TN
Interim Executive Management, Inc. (IEM)
(901) 751-9737
1922 Exeter Road, Suite 40
Memphis, TN
Bellservices
901-327-1675
700 Maury Street
Memphis, TN
Corporate Cost Cutters
(901) 766-9300
5386 Pleasant View Rd
Memphis, TN
Hess Environmental Services
(901) 377-9139
6057 Executive Centre Drive Ste.6
Memphis, TN
Business Resource Group Llc
(901) 276-0157
127 N Cleveland St
Memphis, TN
Itsi Inc
(901) 309-5528
1912 Exeter Rd
Germantown, TN
Hatchett Hospitality, Inc.
(901) 366-5900
5295 East Shelby Drive
Memphis, TN
R & P Executive Services
(901) 521-1203
5 N. Third St., Suite 2010
Memphis, TN
Simmons Management Systems
(901) 681-9031
2500 Mount Moriah Rd Ste H242
Memphis, TN
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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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