Business continuity planning is something every organization needs to practice; around the corner there is always some type of disaster, data-related or otherwise. Could your company survive a significant failure in your infrastructure? Could your company survive the building you work in burning down? Could your company survive a criminal stealing equipment? If your company has a business continuity plan, it's possible the company could survive all of the above scenarios.
An organization's Backup and Recovery strategy is one of the most important aspects of managing a business, especially in a world where more hackers seem to appear everyday and critical mistakes can happen in the blink of an eye. Do you know how to assure that your business is as secure as possible in the event of a disaster? A good place to start is understanding the various terminology associated with data backup and disaster recovery.
The cloud has changed the game for business technology, but perhaps its most important contribution has been to the backup and disaster recovery process. Businesses no longer have to suffer due to unforeseen circumstances such as hardware failure or cyber attacks. Instead, a cloud-based backup and disaster recovery solution, also known as BDR, can provide a considerable failsafe for your organization.
Disasters arrive in all forms and sizes; from an inexplicable storm ruining your place of business and every IT component you had inside, to an employee whose path was crossed by a black cat accidentally spilling their coffee on their keyboard as they access some key data.
Today most companies utilize computers in the dissemination of their services. Whatever the specifics of your business, you depend on your data. Since most businesses also provide goods and services for many people that indirectly depend on it, having a plan to protect the business from potential devastation is important.
When we talk about best practices, we are typically referring to the practices used by successful companies to garner the best results. A new study by Disaster Recovery has shown that, as backup and recovery solutions go, enterprises are providing some pretty disappointing results as many fail to continuously back up their data and it results in additional inherent risk.
