Kitskoo Cloud Services, Nigeria’s young cloud services company in partnership with Microsoft, Resourcery, EMC, and leading IT solution provider is organizing a one day workshop tagged: “Is your organization ready for disaster recovery?”
The event is designed for heads of Information Technology departments as well as Business Unit Heads with a responsibility for key business operations.
Tunde Fafunwa, managing director of Kitskoo Cloud Services noted that corporate data and information loss across the globe has been increasing by more than 20% every year since 2009.
To make matters worse, it’s estimated that about 40% of companies do not have a disaster recovery plan. This data unfortunately includes businesses in Nigeria.
He noted that there is a glaring need to adequately prepare Nigerian business organizations for disaster recovery. The session addresses this critical business need.
He said, “We know that many large companies and organizations in Nigeria have a disaster recovery plan. However, based on Kitskoo’s extensive discussions with a large cross-section of CIO’s, we notice that most organizations are struggling to update, improve and implement a disaster recovery plan and in many cases, the existing plan or implementation process is incomplete or out of date.”
“Our job is to provide companies with the necessary services (and products where required) to successfully complete and implement a disaster recovery plan, including ensuring the integrity and “fitness for purpose” of all the critical components. Some of these components include network, security, virtualization, applications, and business processes. All of these with the right application processes are needed to effectively prepare them for the unforeseen.
Also speaking, Monu Ogbe, executive director of Kitskoo Cloud Services noted that disaster recovery plans and processes that help organizations prepare for disruptive events transcend a few back-ups scattered around the organization.
Notwithstanding catastrophic events such as building fires, another 50% of businesses do experience some level of data loss every year.
“What we intend to achieve with this seminar is to prepare Information Technology decision makers for the eventuality of a business’ disrupting data-loss scenario. While we’ll outline the technological solution to disaster prevention, we’ll also examine some of the processes which would range from overseeing the plan, to providing input and support, as well as putting the plan into action in an emergency.”
He also added that “as a Security, Disaster Recovery, and Cloud Services company, Kitskoo uses an interactive approach to engage customers in identifying where a company is situated on the disaster recovery maturity model. We then provide a road-map and implementation service to take the company from where they are, to where they want to be. One such approach is the up-coming workshop.”