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Automated Online
Backup deliver Fast Data Recovery
If a Bank, insurance
company or retail operation has to ask customers to call back the next day
because their computers are down, they would all lose revenue, business
confidence as well as customer satisfaction. Similarly, if a business finds it
cannot recover its data because the data backup was not done correctly, it also
risks substantial and potentially long-term damage.
Protecting critical
business data with secure, automated online data backup for fast and reliable
data recovery is a vital part of any company’s business continuity plan. It is
not uncommon however, to find that many small and medium sized businesses fail
to recover business data after a server crash or data disaster such as a virus
attack, hard disk crash, fire, flood or theft. Industry analysts estimate that
some 35% of businesses that suffer a data disaster of this nature go out of
business.
While approx 65% of small and medium sized businesses do perform some form of
data backup, it is clear that this is seldom done thoroughly or consistently.
Many of these businesses have little or no IT staff to handle data backups, tape
rotation and off-site data storage; they perform sporadic server backups and
rarely store their tapes off-site.
If a business is running Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server,
Microsoft Small Business Server or Oracle applications, the loss of any of these
applications or services would potentially bring the business to a stand still.
It is perhaps surprising then, that many businesses seldom if ever, perform a
data recovery exercise to test their disaster recovery “readiness”. Important
questions that need to be asked include:
· Can the most recent critical data be recovered?
· Where are the backup files and on what tapes?
· Are the tape backups off-site and if so, how long until they get
here?
· When was the last full database backup performed?
· How long does it take to recover all the data?
If a business is not executing a disciplined data backup procedure then it is
neglecting to put in place a basic business continuity plan.
Larger businesses can afford full-time IT administrators and redundant data
backup facilities. Now, small and medium sized businesses can also benefit from
enterprise class data backup services, but without the need for staff
involvement. Small and medium sized businesses can now ensure that their
critical data is protected through using SecuriData’s automated and secure
online backup and recovery service.
SecuriData’s online backup service compresses and encrypts critical data before
transferring it off-site to high availability data centre facilities, which
store and protect the data. In the event of an accidentally deleted file, virus
damage, server crash or hard disk meltdown, the data is available 24-7 for
instant restore to any machine, any location.
As the value of data increases, businesses need to ensure the integrity,
availability and security of their data. SecuriData’s managed online backup
service automates the data backup, encryption and off-site storage while
maintaining 24-7 data availability for fast restores and minimal business
downtime.
For a free evaluation and further information, please call us on Tel: 08714 25
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