• Water or fire damage
• Electrical outages
• Server hardware failures
• Telecommunications outages
• Health quarantine

What would you do if your offices were unavailable for say, two weeks?  How would run your business?  Do you have a plan in place to deal with this? Many businesses do not.  We think the chances of a disastrous event happening to us are remote. We think we will just deal with it when and if it happens.  However, without a viable backup plan, you could be out of business if it really happens.  The effort required to recover from such an event is a major undertaking, and keeping your business running after losing your basic infrastructure, will require all of your attention. 

At ATSG, we have been running Virtual Machine (VM) servers from EMC for over a year with complete success and zero down time.  VM servers run in hot-backup mode, so if one server fails, the other picks up immediately.  We have been using these VM servers to host applications for our customers in a high-availability scenario.   Recently, we turned our attention to Disaster Recovery.  Once we saw how easy it is to convert stand-alone servers to VM servers, we added more hardware, and have begun offering backup and recovery services to our customers, which are mostly small and medium sized companies with 2 to 15 servers in their environment.   

Like most of our customers, all of your IT assets are probably in one location.  Should that location be made unavailable, you are out of business. However, you can now take steps to protect your business from losing a critical resource: your main computer processing.  If an event occurs disrupting your computing capabilities, you can be operational with a backup server in minutes, not days or weeks. 

ATSG is now making this service available to the small and medium sized business owner at a reasonable cost. Several ATSG customers already have our Disaster Recovery service in place.  We maintain images of each company’s server.  If a disaster occurs, we restore their most recent off-site data backup within a few hours.  Since most people have Internet connections and home computers, our customers can send their employees home to work remotely during a declared disaster.  This service provides our customers a backup environment that complements a full scale disaster plan that each company should have in place.  A disaster plans includes operating procedures, personnel deployments and business policies for activating and operating under a disaster situation.  Our computer backup and recovery service is only one component of an overall continuity of operations plan.  

You can have a Disaster Recovery service for your computing environment, regardless of the size of your business.  For more information, see www.atsgi.com.