How Much Do You Value Your Business Data and Systems? Do You Deliberately Try To Avoid Thinking About This Subject?
With any disaster recovery plan it is essential that you are able to recover your data effectively. Disaster recovery plans must be documented and tested to ensure that the theory works in practice. Also constant monitoring of your day to day backups must be in place to ensure that if the worst does happen you have the data available to recover from. Many businesses have experienced a nasty shock when they go to their backup tape only then realising that their backup has not been working correctly for the past six weeks (or longer).
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Businesses are becoming increasingly dependant upon their data and whether you’re a multinational corporation or a local SME you rely on your business data to function. However business data is constantly under threat from virus attacks, security loop holes, equipment failure or even complete loss of data from fire & theft, which means added pressure to ensure that your business critical information is protected.
The increased use in technology has also played a major part in data protection risks. More and more data is now stored, information about customers, invoices, business financial state is all stored within the companies IT systems.
The SME market can be hit hardest when data loss occurs:
- Limited IT resources for backup and recovery
- All business critical data stored on one server
- Business critical applications running on one server
- Downtime and disruptions caused can have an immediate effect on business and sales
So how can the SME best ensure that their critical data is protected?
- Determine what data is critical to the business
- Think about how you can locate your data offsite
- Calculate the impact that downtime will have on your business
- Look at the best way to implement your backup solution
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