Best Practices – Why IT does matter

As the first anniversary of Katrina and Rita approach recently, I began to think about how my clients have learned from these disasters and I have come to the conclusion that most of them haven’t given much thought to what would happen if a catastrophe hit our area.

Living in Utah, we miss out on Hurricanes and in the almost 30 years that I have lived here, we have only had one tornado. We do live on or near an earthquake fault, though again, only one 6.0 quake in 30 years.

I try to educate my clients on how to protect themselves from data loss. Unfortunately, most of them are either too busy to think about it, or really don’t think that they would be adversely effected by a loss of data. I disagree, but it is like banging your head against a brick wall, after a while it starts to hurt and I just stop trying to get them to understand.

I did a few Google searches and found a lot of data showing that businesses that lose their computer data have trouble recovering. The statistics show that many of them never recover.

Over the next few weeks I am going to post my thoughts and suggestions on what I believe a small business or home based business ought to do to protect themselves for a disaster. Technically this would be call “disaster planning” though I have found that most people don’t like to thing in terms of a “disaster” happening to them, so I will be using the term “best practices”. Same concepts just easier to handle!