Early this year ex-Tropical Cyclone Oswald and then a monsoonal trough passed over north-eastern Australia (Queensland and Northern NSW) causing massive damage to thousands of homes, businesses, roads, bridges and other essential infrastructure. Several people died in the tragic floods that resulted. Many homes and businesses were without power, water and sewage support for weeks[…]
Are you sure that your backup system is working effectively to protect your business from disaster? How many people do you know who thought they had an effective backup system in place and when their system crashed they found that they had lost important information? Sadly I know quite a few people who have lost[…]
As we leave 2012 behind us we look forward to a new year for our businesses. But what should we do in 2013 to improve our business? One of the most important things we can do for our business and our customers is to improve our data management particularly backup and recovery processes. It gives[…]
Last week I talked about mini-disasters. Mini-disasters are local catastrophes that are much more likely to affect your business than the large-scale environmental disasters that scare us the most. By a strange coincidence a few days after I posted the mini-disaster story I was called by one of my new clients. Late on Friday afternoon[…]
When we think about the natural disasters that can affect our businesses we immediately think of bushfires, floods, earthquakes, blackouts, storms and lightning strikes, or strong winds. These can affect your business operations, computers and your information and data. But it is not the large-scale disaster, that is most likely to affect your business, instead[…]