• Your business insurance premium should fall once you show your insurer or broker that your firm is protected by First Recovery. Depending on the size of your premium, the reduction may well result in a net benefit to your business.
• Many companies apply for business via tenders. With supply chains becoming ever more global and complex, our experience is tenderers are asking for evidence of a credible, tested off-site Disaster Recovery Plan as a supplier can cause catastrophic effects up and down the chain if it fails at a critical time. First Recovery allows you to answer tenders with confidence.
• It is considered ‘best practise’ to offer reassurance to prospective and existing clients that should a disaster occur, your company is equipped to overcome the challenge: as a result, many clients include details of their disaster preparedness in proposal documents.

An authoritative survey published by Evolve IP in January 2015 of 2,084 IT professional and executives tells us about the latest practices, trends and challenges for organisations in disaster recovery, business continuity planning, and other related topics. It resulted in some notable statistics. For example:

• The leading causes of incidents and outages:
  • 47% - hardware failure and/or server room issues
  • 34.5% - environmental disasters (such as flooding, fire, ice/frost damage, vehicle strike, storm, etc.)
  • 27.5% - miscellaneous outages
• 51% of those surveyed believe they are only “somewhat prepared” to recover their IT and related assets in the event of a disaster or other incident and another 5% claim they are not prepared
• 45% are still relying on backup tapes as a method of DR
• 34% have experienced an incident that required ‘disaster recovery’.