How long can your business afford to be offline before the effects are measured in dollars, not minutes?

That question is rarely asked until it is already too late. According to VikingCloud’s 2025 SMB Threat Landscape Report, 32% of small businesses would be forced to close from losses as low as $10,000 — and 55% would not survive a $50,000 hit.

Major providers are not immune. According to Cisco’s ThousandEyes, recent Amazon Web Services outage lasted over 15 hours, and a nationwide Verizon disruption ran for around 10 hours.

The question is not if something fails. It is how long you stay down when it does.

A strong disaster recovery plan turns downtime into a controlled event instead of a business-ending surprise.

It defines what must come back first, how systems are restored, and who is responsible at each step. It removes guesswork during high-pressure situations and replaces it with execution.

How we support disaster recovery planning

• Business impact analysis to identify critical systems and acceptable downtime
• Defined Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO)
• Backup strategy design across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid systems
• Failover and redundancy planning for network and infrastructure
• Runbooks with step-by-step recovery procedures
• Vendor coordination and escalation paths documented in advance
• Testing scenarios to validate recovery under real conditions

When the clock starts ticking, so does the cost. Don’t get caught watching the dollars slip away.