ERP is important. If ERP goes down, most of your back-office and front-office personnel are stuck. It was found that IT downtime costs companies approximately $108,000 per hour. Organizations must have a plan in place before disaster strikes. A fully documented business continuity and disaster recovery plan is necessary. Read more at - http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/inside-erp/5-disaster-recovery-strategies-for-handling-erp-failure-70666

No matter, how modernized your IT systems are, but data loss is a major problem. And what will happen if you lose your big data?

More companies are keeping on using big data analytics to analyze real time data – and it has gone to such an extent that now, it is most important to your company. To prevent loss of your big data and to ensure that you are not ruined, it is vital that you should have a proper disaster recovery plan of Big Data. Unlike your conventional data, you cannot apply prevalent data recovery practices. You have to keep in mind that you are dealing with big data and so, you need to formulate your plans properly.

Mary Shacklett, president of technology research and market development firm Transworld Data, takes you through some guidelines. Read them at http://www.techrepublic.com/article/stop-procrastinating-formulate-a-big-data-disaster-recovery-plan-today/# .