# Business Continuity: Preparing for a Disaster, No Matter the Size Source: https://expedient.com/knowledgebase/blog/2014-03-07-business-continuity-preparing-disaster-matter-size/ [](#) # Business Continuity: Preparing for a Disaster, No Matter the Size March 07, 2014 2 min Read ## Business Continuity: Preparing for a Disaster, No Matter the Size Natural disasters are unpredictable. Whether it is a hurricane rocking the East Coast, a blizzard pounding  the North, or a tornado causing havoc in the Midwest, these events give little, if any, advanced warning. While it may be easy to calculate the physical damage such an event causes, have you ever stopped to calculate the damage caused when these events interrupt your daily business operations? #### Mother Nature is Unpredictable, but Access to Your Data Doesn’t Have to Be Too many companies wait for a large-scale event to strike before they start preparing for a network outage. But the truth is that a disaster does not need to happen on a large scale for it to have a major impact. Instead, much smaller and more localized events are capable of having as much, if not greater, impact. Small disasters, like a local power outage, downed phone line or office flooding can interrupt your business and threaten your mission critical data just as ruthlessly as an earthquake or forest fire. In fact, according to DisasterRecoveryPlanning.org, when a company is denied access to mission critical data for 48 hours, their chances of going out business within the next twelve months increases significantly. Even shorter periods of downtime can have drastic costs\_—\_especially for any company with client-facing services or products. #### Preparing for a Disaster Take a moment to evaluate your company’s [disaster recovery plan](/managed-services/disaster-recovery/ "Disaster Recovery as a Service"). Just how prepared are you to handle a disruption to computing resources? Forget about those large scale events, and instead think along the lines of a power outage, a downed phone line or office flooding. Can you afford a disruption to your network, even for a few hours? If you would like to learn more about business continuity planning, Expedient can help. [Contact us](https://www.expedient.com/support/ "Support") today for more information. _As Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Jonathan Rosenson is responsible for overseeing organizational functions that drive growth at Expedient. Jon additionally acts as an external spokesperson conveying the Expedient story._ [_Follow him_](https://x.com/rosenson) _on Twitter._ #### #### #### #### [ ![Jonathan Rosenson](https://res.cloudinary.com/dvlpy3tua/image/upload/fl_sanitize/uploads/jon-rosenson.jpg) Jonathan RosensonPresident & Chief Operating Officer ](/knowledgebase/blog/authors/jonathan-rosenson) [Disaster Recovery](/knowledgebase/blog/tag/disaster%20recovery) ### Related Posts [ #### The VMware Wait Tax: Why Every Quarter of Delay... Inaction on a VMware migration is widely treated as a neutral position, a de... Learn More ](/knowledgebase/blog/2026-08-04-the-vmware-wait-tax-why-every-quarter-of-delay-has-a-price-tag/)[ #### The Great Inversion What was easy is now hard. What was hard is now easy. {% include blog-key-... Learn More ](/knowledgebase/blog/2026-07-29-the-great-inversion/)[ #### Your New Cloud Strategy: Rebalancing for Cost a... {% include blog-key-takeaways.html items=page.key\_takeaways %} A few years a... Learn More ](/knowledgebase/blog/2026-07-15-your-new-cloud-strategy-rebalancing-for-cost-and-performance/) ## Subscribe to Our Blog VMware September 29th, 2026 at 1:00 PM ET ## It’s Time to Decide Your VMware Path [Join us →](https://go.expedient.com/VMWarePath) ### VMware September 29th, 2026 at 1:00 PM ET ## It’s Time to Decide Your VMware Path [Join us →](https://go.expedient.com/VMWarePath)