Tag Archives: Backup
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 themselves from [...]
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.
Over the [...]
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 the time [...]
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 significant [...]
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 the [...]
Are you Safeguarding your Data?
With the continuous proliferation of data and its increasing importance to business, it has become critical to implement measures to safeguard it. One such measure is to make sure you have a data protection, backup, and recovery system in place. The threat of data loss from hardware failure, malware, or disaster is very real. A [...]
Disaster Recovery—An Increasingly Important Aspect of Your Business