Disasters happen more frequently than we’d like to think they do, and no business is immune to unexpected floods, electrical fires, or critical hardware failure.

Nor should any business underestimate the consequences of such an event, with multiple studies showing that most companies who experience a major incident without a good business continuity plan in place never recover. That’s why preparing for all the ways in which a data storage failure, natural disaster, or hardware malfunction could disrupt core operations is crucial.