subject: Doing A Business In San Diego [print this page] Technology and information today go hand in hand with doing business in San Diego, and many companies today are now so dependent on their networks that they often are not thought about as thoroughly as they should be. The impact of something unexpected happening to your business, whether it is a systems failure or hacker attack, could be devastating in many ways to your success. Doing business in San Diego also means having the smarts to do it safely and securely. When critical data is lost or taken, you internal network can quickly come crashing down.
Although no one can predict the future, taking necessary precautions and carefully planning in advance can ensure that doing business in San Diego continues for you should anything unexpected happen. In addition to technological failures, natural disasters have taken quite a toll on companies all over the world that have suffered from volcanoes, hurricanes and earthquakes. Look at the airline industry just this month, which lost billions of dollars after the eruption of the volcano grounded planes and canceled flights for days. In 2007 when flash floods washed up much of the UK, more than 7,000 businesses were flooded, costing billions of dollars. Some companies were unable to operate as normal or operate at all, and damage to their reputation because of an inability to communicate was permanent and dooming. Would your business in San Diego survive should something like this happen?
In doing business in San Diego, to meet requirements for survival and coping with unexpected events, todays companies need more than network capability alone. You must make sure that you have a combination of profound network capability and a next generation service mindset from your telecommunication provider. In short, always have a back up plan! It has to be well thought out and must no be a case of one size fits all action plans.
Different industries have different requirements for resilience to disasters and the unexpected. For a majority of those who are doing business in San Diego, rules and regulations are not all that strict, but the implications of failure are always severe. The key to avoiding a major network and infrastructure collapse in the event that some unforeseen problem occurs is to have sufficient back up systems in place. On average, 80% of businesses shut down and stop doing business in San Diego and around the world within a year and a half of experiencing a major network problem when their critical data was not sufficiently backed up.
