Data Is Your Business
What would you do if you came in tomorrow and...
couldn't find your server?
The explosion of PC-based computing in the workplace has seen a dependency creeping into the daily, already busy lives of businessmen and women, and going largely unrecognised for what it really is - the heart of the business.
The factors which drive that dependency vary from industry to industry, however the one common theme is that most business, small, medium or large cannot function efficiently and cost effectively without computers due to the massive amounts of critical business data stored on those computers.
Your business critical data includes such valuable information as:
- Financial Information
- Correspondence - (Emails and letters)
- Client Information
- Research and Development Data
- Customer Relationship Management Information
- Creative and other Intellectual Property
- Personnel Records
...and the list goes on.
When was the last time you backed up your business critical data?
Sole proprietors are typically too busy managing (and hopefully increasing) their customer/client/patient base to worry about consistent data backup. When backups are performed, they are generally not done properly and the necessary steps needed to ensure the integrity and security of the data are unknown, overlooked or not even considered.
SMEs quite frequently are no better off. Although there are more people, most are usually too busy performing the core tasks for which they were hired. More often than not the same problems affecting a sole proprietor are relevant for the employee elected to be responsible for the company's IT.
Thus the business owner has an even bigger problem - backups not being done as they should be but he or she lives in the belief that the critical data is safe because 'someone has been appointed to take care of it'.
All too often backups are rushed through without verifying them, or put off until a more convenient time. Even when backups are performed, the backup disks or tapes are left in a drawer next to the computer or simply placed on top of the computer where they will be lost in the same catastrophe.
“...An Offsite Backup Service is an important part of a responsible data protection plan... ”
The backup program runs, no errors are generated, the tapes are swapped, everything is fine, right?
Wrong!
If your data backup is out of date, consider this...
Why is it that manufacturers of storage media will offer a lifetime guarantee on their floppy disk media, but those same companies will not offer the same guarantee on their mass storage media products, such as tapes, SuperDisks and CDR/W - namely the ones you rely on daily to store and protect your company's most valuable asset?
Don't let this happen to you when real and actual protection is available for an affordable monthly fee, using a system that requires no further input from your side beyond the initial install, and basic selection of what to backup. Take the necessary steps today to protect your most valuable business asset, your business critical data.
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