Is your business truly protected?
This is the million-dollar mind-boggling question!
Before you try answering this question let’s put things into perspective with these quick facts.
Firstly, over 93% of businesses experiencing a major data loss for 10 days or more, due to a disaster had to file for bankruptcy. Meaning if your business goes down for 10 days or more, your likelihood of surviving is greatly reduced.
Another interesting fact, every week, 140,000 hard drives crash in the United States. But the even more alarming fact is that, 34% of companies fail to test their tape backups, and of those that do, 77% experience tape backup failures.
Okay, we know what you are probably thinking now….“these are just facts, that do not necessarily affect my business.” And the truth is, while you might be right, without a comprehensive business continuity plan, you are leaving your business to chance – the chance of flood, fire, or any other disaster that could lead to downtime.
What is Business Continuity?
Business continuity is the ability to keep your business and data systems, up and running even in the event of a technical or natural disaster. Business continuity helps you build a resilient business that can stand the test of time, come what may. Creating an effective business continuity plan involves analyzing your current business operations and systems, and then, coming up with a plan that allows you to stay operational even in the event of a disaster. At the core of your business, is your data. Therefore your business continuity plan should at large focus on how to protect your data.
Why is Backup Alone Not Enough?
The most commonly used tape-backups are no longer enough when thinking about a true business continuity plan because over 50% of tape backups fail. Data conversion with traditional backup methods such as, tape, disk also have a time-consuming data conversion process which could take weeks. A business continuity solution ensures data protection, security and instant recovery in case of a disaster to mitigate the risk of business data loss and an increased downtime.
Additionally traditional backup methods require backup and storage of business data in many locations. With modern business continuity solutions, your image-based backup is automatically stored in multiple locations without you, or anyone on your team, having to manually ship tapes offsite.
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