A major UK-wide study found that 48% of small and medium-sized businesses had lost, or lost access to, company or customer data within the previous five years. That affected about 800,000 UK businesses and cost UK companies more than £5.3 billion since 2019. Commercial data loss alone exceeded £1 billion a year, according to Beaming's...
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Business Impact Analysis: A Practical Guide for UK SMEs
A Monday morning outage rarely begins with a clean technical failure. It begins with people asking different questions at the same time. Which orders can still ship? Can fee-earner documents be opened? Who tells clients? Does the phone system work? Are backups usable, and which service should be restored first? That confusion is the gap a...
Read MoreRecovery Time Objective: A Complete Guide for UK Businesses
The average Recovery Time Objective for mature disaster recovery plans is 4 hours, while only 30% of small businesses maintain a tested plan. That gap is where most outages become expensive, because a target on paper means very little if no one has proved the business can meet it. For UK SMEs, recovery time objective is...
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