Intelligent Business Continuity: You need it, we can help.

When was the last time you seriously thought about your business€s disaster recovery plan? If you€re like most small businesses you€ve thought about it briefly and then put it aside as something that is not pressing and can be dealt with another day, when your to-do list is shorter or you have more time. According to a Forrester Research Study 24% of companies polled had experienced a full data disaster and with less than 40% of all small to medium-sized businesses properly and regularly backing up their data, many are unable to recover. Now is the time to put in place a backup and disaster recovery plan before your company experiences an unexpected disaster and becomes one of the 70% of businesses that goes out of business within two years of suffering a serious data loss.

 


Don€t let this be you when disaster strikes!
One of the biggest mistakes a company can make is believing that a disaster will never happen to them. For many people the word disaster is associated with big weather events like hurricanes or earthquakes and the ensuing damage from flooding and fires but disasters are day-to-day occurrences. When it comes to technology many of us have done something that could endanger our data to the point of no return, whether it€s accidently downloading a virus from an untrusted email attachment or deleting something by mistake, and it€s important to plan for the human error we all are susceptible to. Your data is the backbone of your company and keeping it safe from all potential negative forces is key.

At Databranch, we promote implementing an intelligent business continuity solution and our preferred solution is Datto. Having an intelligent business continuity solution not only ensures the backup of your data but provides a speedy recovery leaving your business with very little downtime. You may be thinking, €It€s OK, we€re a small business, not a multi-million dollar company, we can afford to be down for a few days€ but according to the National Archives and Records Administration, 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more file for bankruptcy within the year. It€s time to consider the actual cost of downtime for your company including how much it would cost to pay employees that aren€t able to work and what it would cost to lose a customer because you couldn€t provide service to them in a timely manner. (If you would like to see your recovery time and downtime costs try this calculator from our vendor partner, Datto. http://tools.dattobackup.com/rto/).

 

We know it can be hard to change from something that has been working for you and that you are familiar with, but the reality is traditional backup solutions like tape and disk are no longer sufficient. With traditional solutions it can take weeks to recover your data, there is high risk for human error in creating the backup, it€s difficult to test if your backup is working properly, and when recovering data, tape failure rates exceed 50%. This does not mean we are suggesting you eliminate local storage and put all of your data in the cloud. Instead, we recommend a hybrid cloud solution to all of our customers through Datto.

Having a hybrid cloud solution gives your business the best of both worlds. You can perform easy local restores from your on-site Datto device but also have the reassurance that if something happens to your local device your data is safely located off-site in the cloud, in two separate bi-coastal data centers. This means that once set-up you will have three distinct copies of each file automatically backed up, eliminating the possibility for human error. At Databranch, we can monitor your backups, verify a successful completion, and take action if a backup doesn€t complete successfully. You no longer have to worry if your data is being backed up correctly and can have the peace of mind that if a disaster strikes, you won€t find out that an important file has been corrupted or backups haven€t taken place for months; both problems that often occur with traditional backup. By implementing a Datto business continuity solution your downtime is drastically reduced and with the virtualization capabilities of the SIRIS device, you can turn your device into a virtual server, keeping your business running while potential problems like server failure are being addressed.

In today€s day and age it€s essentially impossible to be without access to your business data. Technology is critical to everyday business practices and having a backup and recovery system you can count on is imperative. The time to develop an intelligent backup continuity system is now, not next week, not when your schedule calms down, but today. As Benjamin Franklin said, €If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.€

Databranch can help provide a solution for your company€s business continuity and disaster recovery needs. If you would like to learn more, please call us today to speak with an Account Manager, or visit www.databranch.com/Data-Disaster-Recovery.