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# Does Your IT Business Continuity Plan Ensure Rapid Data Recovery?

### Why Do You Need an IT Business Continuity Plan?

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It’s no secret that data and network infrastructure are at the heart of operations for modern businesses. An IT business[continuity plan](https://clumio.com/rto/the-role-of-disaster-recovery-in-a-business-continuity-plan/) is crucial to keep an organization operating during a disaster event such as a cloud outage or a malicious cyber attack like ransomware. This is essentially a plan within the larger plan, as it accounts for all things IT-related, ranging from keeping servers online to recovering and restoring lost or stolen data. And during a potentially crippling disaster event, the speed at which you can recover and restore data makes all the difference.

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### How to Enable Rapid Data Recovery in an IT Business Continuity Plan

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While all data is important to an organization, not all data is necessarily equal or mission-critical to maintaining business operations. When disaster recovery is underway, it’s important to be equipped with a way to identify and prioritize restoring specific data sets and workloads over others.

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If your organization has migrated to the cloud, know that your recovery abilities ultimately depend on your choice of cloud backup platform.

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Restoring whole data and workload instances via cloud backup can be time-consuming and may slow down the speed of recovery, potentially jeopardizing an organization’s [Recovery Time Objective](https://www.commvault.com/blogs/rto) and [Recovery Point Objective](https://www.commvault.com/blogs/the-importance-of-recovery-point-objective-rpo-in-your-business-continuity-plan) parameters and creating a break in business continuity. Rapid data recovery can be achieved with capabilities such as granular recovery, which lets you choose and prioritize specific data and instances for restoration while a full recovery commences, rather than waiting for all enterprise data to be restored, regardless of importance.

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### Achieve Rapid Restore with Clumio

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Clumio’s industry-leading cloud backup-as-a-service provides enterprises with all the tools necessary to ensure rapid data restores during a disaster event. With capabilities such as granular recovery, flexible recovery, and global search, Clumio allows users to pinpoint specific mission-critical data and workloads to restore first, along with the ability to instantly restore from any regions that are unaffected by the outage or disaster.

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Other features include:

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- Instant backups of AWS data across your entire organization
- Air-gapped backup storage to provide protection from ransomware and other malicious attacks
- Simplified data compliance with global policies
- Optimized backups and insights into potential cost-savings