7 Reasons You Need Backup

At any moment, hardware or software failure, data corruption, malicious virus or malware attack, accidental deletion of data, and even a natural disaster can happen. Is your business ready to handle these situations? If not, a backup solution can be highly beneficial to save your hard work and data.  

1) Protection - With a backup solution, your chances of breach and exposer are reduced. Your critical information and is safeguarded so you can protect your business and your customer's trust.  

2) Employee Productivity – Your employees can return to their jobs quickly, with a safe backup plan so they can work without worry. Productivity will not be lost but improved.

3) Controlling Cost – Work from home devices are costly. The most expensive part of your employee's devices are the data that is on them. The average cost of a lost business laptop is around $50,000 due to the information that may be on it.  

4) Fast File Recovery - Backup solutions allow you to locate your data quickly. With older methods, it can take weeks to months before you can get your data back.  

5) File sharing on the go - Sharing files and other important information between employees needs to happen for regular business functionality. Having a backup solution offers a secure method to share files without worrying about if they will lose them or not.

6) Empower your employees - Yes, the IT department is there to help in a moment of need. Empowering employees to restore files on their own can significantly reduce overhead. This allows IT to focus on more extreme tasks.  

7) No performance impact - An excellent backup solution does not affect the performance of your device. This allows for fewer disruptions in work tasks. Most of the time, users do not realize their files are being backed up while they work.  

It is time to start thinking about backup solutions and how beneficial they are to your company. Contact us today to learn how we can help your business.

A Data Recovery Plan Fit to Secure Your Network

It’s unrealistic to think that you can completely avoid cyberattacks and data breaches, so it’s vital to have a proper data recovery plan in place. It is time for you to tighten your defenses significantly by ensuring all of your network devices are properly configured and by putting some thought into all of your potential network borders.

Data Recovery Is a Must

Every year there are natural disaster events that take place all over the world. These disasters affect your IT capabilities and can be harmful; however, the vast majority of disasters that cause significant IT downtime are from human error, hardware and software failure, and cyberattacks.

Data Recovery Capability

Do you have a proper backup plan in place? Have you tested it to see if it is fully functional? Disaster recovery is vital, but an alarming number of companies do not have an adequate system in place. A successful malware attack can lead to altered data on all compromised machines, and the full effects are often very difficult to determine. The option to roll back to a backup that predates the infection is vital. Backed-up data must be encrypted and physically protected. It’s also essential that a test team routinely checks a random sampling of system backups by restoring them and verifying data integrity.

Contact us today to learn about creating a disaster recovery plan tailored to your business.

Create a Data Recovery Plan

Create a data recovery plan and secure your network It's unrealistic to think that you can completely avoid cyber-attacks and data breaches, so it's vital to have a proper data recovery plan in place. You can also tighten your defenses significantly by ensuring all of your network devices are properly configured, and by putting some thought into all of your potential network borders.

Data Recovery Capability Do you have a proper backup plan in place? Have you ever tested it to see that it works? Disaster recovery is absolutely vital, but an alarming number of companies do not have an adequate system in place. A survey of 400 IT executives by IDG Research revealed that 40% rate their organizations' ability to recover their operations in the event of disaster or disruption as "fair or poor." Three out of four companies fail from a disaster recovery standpoint, according to the Disaster Recovery Preparedness Benchmark.
A successful malware attack can lead to altered data on all compromised machines and the full effects are often very difficult to determine. The option to roll back to a backup that predates the infection is vital. Backed up data must be encrypted and physically protected. It's also important that a test team routinely checks a random sampling of system backups by restoring them and verifying data integrity.
Contact us today to learn about creating a DR plan tailored to your business.