RenovoData Weekly Articles

As you are home during the holiday season enjoying your family and eggnog, data backup for your organization is the furthest thing from your mind.  During this time of the year when businesses experience a shorter IT staff, or in incident of weather-related issues which prevent personnel from making it to the facility to respond and recover operations, the need for a secure remote backup company is important.  An offsite backup service provider ensures those accommodations are accounted for within minutes.

When you have multiple servers at a site, the conventional method used by many businesses would be to set up a central backup server with a tape library.  The problem with this solution is that it creates a bottleneck and a single point of backup failure within your network.  Also, with slower backup and recovery speeds, no quick 24/7 access to data recovery, human error and the manual intervention required to get data offsite, tapes have proved to be an unreliable method.  This often cumbersome and lengthy process as a means of data protection can negatively impact the business recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO and RPO) for your company, and compromises critical business practices such as complying with regulatory requirements.  For the same reasons that mp3 players are more commonly used today while music tapes are pretty much obsolete, remote backup is a better and more advanced solution for protecting your business-critical data.

In the event of a disaster, if employees are on vacation, managing a data center can pose a major challenge.  Remote backup solutions can be specified as a managed service to be installed into the existing infrastructure of your company ran by IT administrators.  If personnel are inaccessible during a critical time such as a server crash, an offsite solution is the guaranteed means of business continuity and disaster recovery.

Trivia Question:  What percentage of companies experiencing significant data loss goes out of business within five years?

Answer:  Posted in our upcoming blog.