Many organizations are scrutinizing their budgets right now, looking for ways to cut unnecessary expenses. But one cost you would never eliminate is your business casualty insurance.

The same reasoning should apply to business continuity planning. Everyone knows that downtime and data loss can cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars per hour, and expose the organization to legal or regulatory risks. Yet too many organizations hesitate to invest in systems and services that can help them avoid these potentially devastating scenarios.

Smaller organizations are particularly vulnerable to disaster. A lot of small companies are under the mistaken notion that data backup equals business continuity. That’s simply not the case. You need a solution that will get mission-critical systems back up and running in as little time as possible.

It doesn’t have to be expensive. FusionStorm and Jeskell can help you choose from an array of best-of-breed products — cost-effective products that we have proven to work in real-world environments like yours — and assemble those solutions into an end-to-end business continuity platform. We have also developed “cloud” services that allow you to turn over your business continuity requirements to our engineers for a low monthly fee.

Clearly, organizations must be cautious about spending, particularly in an economic downturn. But that’s no reason to leave your organization at risk for downtime or data loss. Whether severe weather, fire or human error, disaster can strike any time. And like that business casualty insurance policy, business continuity systems are there to help ensure that your business survives.

John Varel

CEO, Founder, Chairman

FusionStorm/Jeskell