Is your business prepared for a disaster? Planning for the worst can help your business achieve its best, even during difficult times. With risk management and disaster recovery planning swiftly becoming essential elements to a successful management strategy, companies are realizing the importance of data backup as a significant component of business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
* Can take weeks to recover data after a disaster
occurs, if the data is recoverable
* High risk of failure due to
heavy manual administration: 58% of
downtime is due to human error
*
Difficult to test if a backup is working properly
* Time consuming and expensive to make
a copy of, and store,
backups in multiple locations. 61% of SMBs still ship
tapes to an off
site location
* Backup speeds are slower
* Difficult
to prioritize important data, files and applications
* Physical to virtual conversions
can be time consuming and have a
high failure rate
* Data and backups
are at risk when based in only one location, either
local OR in the
cloud
* Limited options for encrypting data, may not pass industry
regulations
(i.e., HIPAA, SOX)
* Tape failure rates can exceed 50%
* Potential for theft of loss
of media
* Perceived cost savings are deceiving–average cost of downtime is
$1000 average per hour
* Downtime after a disaster is reduced to hours,
minutes, or even
seconds
* Fully automated backup process—very little
manual management
required
* Automated screenshots are taken of each
image-based backup, to
verify a successful backup
* Each image-based
backup is automatically saved in multiple
locations for redundancy; local
appliance and secure data centers
* Quick and efficient transfer of files to off-site
data centers, even with
low bandwidth or busy networks
* Critical data
can be prioritized, to be transferred offsite first
* Avoid risk of downtime from a local
disaster, as backups are stored in
both local device AND secure cloud
*
Minimal risk of corrupted backups or data loss
* Off-site backups stored in SSAE16 Type
II data centers, ensuring
security
* The ability to keep your business
running in the event of disaster has
immeasurable value