Disaster Preparedness for Mid-Size Firms. Part 3.

Hardware Failures. It's a fact of IT. The most vulnerable components have moving parts, such as hard drives, which also happens to hold a comany's most valuable and irreplaceable asset-data. Replacing hardware can be a laborious process because you must physically obtain the component, which may take a day or two if you don't regularly stock spares, then visit the site to replace it. SOFTWARE ERRORS. Software have become increasingly large and complex. With complexity comes more room for errors. Systems that have been running fine for a long time can run across a software bug unexpectedly and go down. Fixing the problem can take a fair amount of detective work by both IT and the ISV.