In business, it's always a good idea to play the "what if" game? You know, asking those "what if" scenario questions about your operations, customers and employees. For example: What if a key employee were to quit or die? What if we lost our biggest customer? What if we lost our supplier? And so on.

If your company relies on computer data (and what company doesn't these days?), then a critical what if question you need to ask is, "What if we had a data loss disaster"?

What shape would you be in if your computer data systems failed? More to the point, what is your specific disaster recovery plan? Because the reality is that it is not a question of whether you will suffer a data loss, it is a question of WHEN it will happen.

Does your business even have a data center disaster recovery plan in place? If the answer to that question is "No" or if you are less than satisfied with the answer, then you need to read on.

Having no disaster recovery plan is a disaster in and of itself. But what if you have a system in place? Can you comfortably say that you are confident that your backup system will perform?

Well, if you're having second thoughts about either starting a data center disaster recovery plan, or if you are not confident that the plan you do have will work, then it's time to invest in a new plan that you can trust.

What if you're running your own business? Mind you, it's not some giant international conglomerate, but for a small company that's only a few years old, it's doing fairly well. More importantly, it's your business!

Perhaps your business is doing so well that you managed to score a big client recently and now most of your employees are hard at work on a big new project this client gave you? What if the deadline of this project is in a week's time, and though your company is on pace to meet the deadline, the schedule is so tight that even the smallest delay could make you late?

What if your client is very particular about time, or the project is time sensitive, and a delay would cause the client to leave your company for one of your competitors?

What if a blood curdling scream suddenly filled your office? You run to find out what's going on, only to find one of your key employees staring in wide-eyed terror at his computer screen? He turns to you, and in a stunned voice manages to tell you that somehow he has lost a month's worth of work in the company database by accident?

What if you realized at that moment that there is no way to restore that data and that starting over would make it impossible for you to meet your time-sensitive deadline? At that split second, you realize that you've procrastinated on getting that data backup system in place that you've know all along you needed.

The realization that had you just made data backup a priority BEFORE the data loss occurred, that right now instead of panicking, you'd simply be implementing your simple data center disaster recovery plan and with your reliable computer backup system safely in place, you be minutes away from a simple restore of those now lost files? Imagine how good it would feel to be delayed a matter of minutes instead of being dead in the water and unable to finish the project in time?

What if it wasn't a hapless employee that deleted a few files? What if one of the thousands of insidious computer viruses found its way into your database and corrupted (or worse - deleted) every single file? What if that virus spread to every computer on your network, effectively crippling everything that keeps your business running? Would you like to be banging your head against the wall out of frustration, knowing that if you had just taken the time to make online computer backups that your business could still be saved?

Well now, what if you weren't lucky enough to suffer a simple computer virus? What if an earthquake, a fire, a hurricane (can you say Katrina), a tornado, a theft, or any number of random unstoppable forces of nature completely ravaged your office building, leaving you not only without a physical space, but totally without computers, without any files or hard data, and without any record that could prove you ever had a business to begin with? Sound far-fetched? Just ask any business owner in New Orleans or South California recently.

Would you break down and start to cry, thinking about how even the most minimal of effort toward implementing a data center disaster recovery plan could have made a huge difference? What if all it took to save your business was a computer backup system and a few online computer backups?

So am I. And I suppose by now, you're beginning get the point. So what's going to be your excuse now?

Don't you think it is time to take ACTION before it truly is too late?

When getting started on a data center disaster recovery plan, there's no need to think twice. It's an essential part of your business and something that you should have RIGHT NOW. Otherwise, you may find yourself asking "what if?" for real.

If your business relies on computer data, you need a data center disaster recovery plan. Set up your data center disaster recovery plan today -- BEFORE it's too late!

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