Let's be honest, have you ever thought about what would happen if your server or workstation crash or get infected by a virus and all of your data was wiped clean?

You’ll be covered and running in record time!

What is ​business continuity?

Business continuity is the ability of an organization to maintain essential functions during, as well as after, a disaster has occurred. Business continuity planning establishes risk management processes and procedures that aim to prevent interruptions to mission-critical services, and re-establish full function to the organization as quickly and smoothly as possible.
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The most basic business continuity requirement is to keep essential functions up and running during a disaster and to recover with as little downtime as possible. A business continuity plan considers various unpredictable events, such as natural disasters, fires, disease outbreaks, cyber-attacks and other external threats.

Business continuity is important for organizations of any size, but it may not be practical for any but the largest enterprises to maintain all functions for the duration of a disaster. According to many experts, the first step in business continuity planning is deciding which of an organization's functions are essential and allocating the available budget accordingly. Once crucial components have been identified, fail-over mechanisms can be put in place.

A business continuity plan has three key elements: Resilience, recovery and contingency.

• A company can increase resilience by designing critical functions and infrastructures with various disaster possibilities in mind; this can include staffing rotations, data redundancy and maintaining a surplus of capacity. Ensuring resiliency against different scenarios can also help businesses maintain essential services on location and off-site without interruption.
• Rapid recovery to restore business functions after a disaster is crucial. Setting recovery time objectives for different systems, networks or applications can help prioritize which elements need to be recovered first. Other recovery strategies include resource inventories, agreements with third parties to take on company activity and using converted spaces for mission-critical functions.
• A contingency plan has procedures in place for a variety of external scenarios and can include a chain of command that distributes responsibilities within the organization. These responsibilities can include hardware replacement, leasing emergency office spaces, damage assessment and contracting third-party vendors for assistance.

OK, I'm in. I need my business to be up and running, now what?
We can make it happen with the help of Datto.

Datto Inc. is a backup, recovery and business continuity company that provide data protection products to businesses of all sizes.
Datto offers a range of products through a variety of platforms, including hardware, software and virtual appliances.
Datto's product line, which features centralized, cloud-based management, includes  the Datto Networking Appliance, Datto Networking Switches and Datto Networking WiFi.

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Datto Alto

Datto Alto - designed for small businesses. It uses image-based backup and a hybrid cloud platform. Users protect physical, virtual and cloud workloads on Windows, Mac and Linux systems. Alto features point-in-time rollback to recover from disruptions such as ransomware. Backups replicate to the Datto Cloud on a schedule set and managed by the Alto device. Alto is available as a hardware appliance

Datto Siris

Datto Siris - incorporates features from other Datto backup products, including Datto NAS and Alto. Siris is a comprehensive data protection platform that protects physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure on Windows, Mac and Linux. Like Alto, Siris features point-in-time rollback and replicates to the Datto Cloud. Siris is available as hardware, software and as a virtual appliance.

Datto NAS

Datto NAS - a network-attached storage device that connects to Datto's cloud. It provides backup, recovery and business continuity for local, virtual and cloud workloads. Datto NAS is centrally managed and protected by Datto Cloud. Users can share files and folders on the local network and replicate NAS snapshots to Datto Cloud for backup. Datto NAS is available as hardware

DATTO CCP

Datto Cloud Continuity for PCs- Protect client endpoints against ransomware, loss or theft, and accidental data deletion. Cloud Continuity protects business data on Windows 7 and 10 devices and streamlines recovery of the entire device configuration, setup and applications with image-based restore.

Datto SAAS

Datto SAAS - Protect, control, and easily recover clients' Office 365 and G Suite data. One in three users experience data loss in cloud applications like Microsoft Office 365 and Google G Suite. There is an alternative. With Datto SaaS Protection, MSPs can protect their clients against accidental or malicious deletion, ransomware attacks, and other cloud data loss.

Datto DNA

Datto DNA - The Datto Networking Appliance or DNA for short is the next generation router.It’s a smart appliance that can keep business running, even when all else fails. And, it even helps reduce IT costs.
4G LTE failover and failback, No contract, No overage charges, No need to manage multiple cobbled together failover options, no need to track data usage.

Datto WiFi

 Datto WiFi - Datto Networking WiFi access points deliver powerful, easy-to-use wireless networks, with seamless roaming for always connected WiFi. And with Datto Networking’s cloud management system

DATTO MPS

Datto Managed Power Strip - Datto Managed Power eliminates POWER TRIPS. Now you can click a button and reboot that non-responsive device.
Not every device plugged in to Managed Power has an IP address. And some devices just need to be more carefully managed. So, we provide a manual one-click reboot option for each power port.

Datto Switches

Datto Switches - Datto Partners manage the entire fleet of services and devices from one robust portal, PoE gives you the flexibility to deliver switching performance, starting at 55W all the way up to 740W.
Voice VLAN and QoS are fully supported, too.

This easy-to-use tool will calculate how much money your clients will be losing during downtime, per hour.Recovery Time & Downtime Cost Calculator

The cost of a technology outage can cripple a business. Use our Recovery Time & Downtime Cost Calculator to focus on a handful of simple metrics that might come into play during a downtime event, and start a general analysis of what an outage could mean to your business. The results of this calculator are meant to help estimate loss, and does not calculate actual loss.

This easy-to-use tool will calculate how much money your clients will be losing during downtime, per hour.

Calculate your customers' downtime in dollars

About Datto

Datto backup and disaster recovery (DR) products serve more than 5,000 MSPs internationally. According to the vendor, its purpose-built Datto Cloud -- which is larger than 300 PB -- stores offsite backups and provides offsite virtualization for business continuity (BC) and DR. Datto also offers cloud-to-cloud backup, which protects software as a service (SaaS) applications such as Microsoft Office 365 and the Salesforce platform, by backing them up to another cloud.

Datto purchased cloud-to-cloud backup pioneer Backupify in 2014. Backupify protects data stored in SaaS applications such as Salesforce, Google's G Suite and Microsoft Office 365. Cloud-to-cloud backup is needed for SaaS applications in the event of disruptions such as user errors and cyberattacks.
In late 2015, Datto closed a $75 million funding round led by private equity and venture capital firm Technology Crossover Ventures. At the time, Datto CEO and founder Austin McChord said his company had been profitable since 2013. Datto had total funding of approximately $100 million when it was acquired by Vista Equity Partners.

In late 2016, Datto purchased cloud-based networking provider Open Mesh. The Open Mesh wireless access point and Ethernet switching technologies led to the creation of Datto's networking product line built for MSPs and geared toward SMBs. Datto did not disclose terms of the deal, which transformed Open Mesh into a Datto company.

Datto was acquired by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners and merged with IT management provider Autotask in 2017. Datto's merger with Autotask Corp. brought several technologies under one roof for SMBs, including professional services automation, remote monitoring and management, backup and DR, networking continuity, and file sync and share.

Autotask, located in New York, offers an IT management suite of products. Terms of the deal, which closed in December 2017, were not disclosed. When the deal closed, the merged organization had approximately 1,300 employees with offices in nine countries. Its 13,000 MSPs service more than 500,000 SMBs in 125 countries