With the world becoming more and more digital, a company of any size's greatest asset is likely its data. Considering how important data is to a business' daily operations, companies need to take appropriate measures to safeguard that information should a natural or human-caused disaster threaten its integrity.

Therefore, generating a viable disaster recovery plan should be at the forefront of a business owners' to-do list if one has not already been drafted.

However, owners of smaller companies may be under the predisposition that the lower volume of data they use to conduct business and generate profit somehow makes them less vulnerable when disaster conditions manifest.

"The general impression in the industry is that downtime only impacts big companies and therefore, fast recovery and [disaster recovery] are somehow the exclusive domain of large enterprises. This cannot be further from the truth," Arun Taneja, a consulting analyst for storage consulting firm Taneja Group, said in an article for MSPmentor, a news source that covers the world of managed services. "While it might cost less in absolute dollars, the relative impact of downtime on a smaller company is exactly the same as on larger businesses."

Considering the risks associated with data loss for small businesses, strategic data recovery plans need to be implemented in the case of a disaster. One viable solution to this problem is deploying the assistance of a provider of VoIP telephony systems that can offer cloud computing solutions to remotely store the full scope of a small company's data.

By leveraging remote data storage through a managed IT service, employees could access the information necessary to complete their daily responsibilities from any location, decreasing recovery time and reducing the amount of downtime that might otherwise lead to lost revenue. 

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