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Tag Archives: Backup
Ready for a Data Loss Disaster? Eight Questions to Find Out
Losing data to a natural or man-made disaster can be devastating – but the protective actions you can take are not. What would happen to your business if you had a major data loss? The possibility is definitely there; this can’t be denied. Data loss disasters come in many forms, ranging from simple human errors [...]
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Eight Actions You Can Take to Guard Against Data Loss
Data loss disasters come in many forms, ranging from simple human errors to “acts of God” that cannot be controlled. However, you can control how you prepare for such occurrences – and the steps may be easier than you think. What would happen to your business if you had a major data loss? The possibility [...]
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Before Moving Your Business to The Cloud…
Before you entrust your sensitive data to a “cloud” service provider, make sure you weigh the risks with the benefits.
Disaster Recovery—An Increasingly Important Aspect of Your Business
As networks and devices become increasingly complex, more and more things can go wrong. As a result, disaster recovery plans have also become more complex. Is yours good enough? According to Jon William Toigo, the author of Disaster Recovery Planning, 15 or 20 years ago a disaster recovery plan might consist of powering down a [...]
Why You Can’t Survive without a Disaster Recovery Plan
It’s simple: Businesses that suffer data losses usually fail as a result. That’s according to a study by the Department for Trade and Industry, which found that 70 percent of small businesses suffering a major data loss are out of business within 18 months. What this means is most small businesses have failed to protect [...]
Evaluating your backup solution
You can’t have a disaster recovery plan until you first have a good backup solution. Is your backup solution good—or just good enough? The traditional backup process is done to tape – which has a number of limitations including high cost (particularly as capacity increases), difficult upgrades, degradation over time, and slow backup and restoration. [...]
Is Your Disaster Recovery Plan Up To Date?
Businesses are constantly changing. Is your disaster recovery plan changing, too? It should be. Every company can experience a business-altering event at any time: floods, explosions, accidents, computer malfunctions—the list is endless. If you have a disaster recovery plan, you’re prepared to prevent such events from disrupting your normal operations—or at least you were at [...]
Business Continuity Planning: Your Business May Depend on It
With the start of a new year, businesses commonly implement changes and launch new initiatives that have ramifications for your IT environment. Ignore them at your own peril. Chief among your IT considerations should be a Business Continuity Plan, or BCP, which will allow your business to resume normal operations in the event of a [...]
Business Impact of a Major Data Loss Event
Data breaches are costing companies more than ever, according to a recent study—and smaller companies may be most at risk. Data losses, which can result from theft or carelessness, are a downside of the information age. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), more than 35 million data records were breached in 2008 in [...]
Eight Questions to Ask Yourself about Disaster Recovery