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Data Disaster Recovery
September
6, 2007 |
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Businesses of all sizes have become increasingly
dependent on data for their very existence. A staggering
half of businesses that lose their data due to disasters
go out of business within 24 months. You need a
fail-safe data disaster recovery strategy that ensures
business continuity, continuous data protection, and
regulatory compliance.
A recent report from
Gartner Group
indicates that server backup in the Small and Medium
Business world is approaching 100%. And, recent
regulatory requirements are causing businesses to
re-examine current recovery plans. There is also an
increasing awareness that responsible business
protection also includes moving data to a safe off-site
location.
Large-scale disasters such as hurricanes and tornadoes
are well publicized, but greater risk exists for most
businesses in equally damaging events such as fire,
flood, theft, a malfunction in the sprinkler system, or
simple human error. Understanding the need for data
disaster recovery is only the first step in the process.
Equally important is determining the right data
protection strategy for your business.
Proper planning requires clear answers to several
critical questions, and the questions are the same
regardless of the size of the business:
• What functions of the business are imperative to
generating revenue?
• What functions are imperative to normal operations?
• Which functions are less imperative, but still
important to the business?
The answers to these questions help determine minimally
acceptable time-frames to recover from a failure and how
much data loss is acceptable. See the Iron Mountain
Digital paper,
Data Disaster Recovery for Small and Medium Businesses.
It provides insights on the leading causes of data loss,
how to craft a cost-effective, off-site data protection
strategy, and how on-line backup and recovery lets you
get to all your data - from applications to databases to
email - after any disaster. |
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