4 reasons why you need Disaster Recovery and Backup
Regardless of their size and industry, any company has at least one aspect in common, becoming more digitalized. It gives an endless opportunity for growth and scale, but at the same time brings new challenges. For example, the most important data is stored in a digital format. It means that even a spilled glass of water can damage some critical hardware and result in significant losses. Other examples would include employees’ mistakes, natural disasters, and cyber-attacks.
That is why data backup and disaster recovery plan should become part of your business strategy. Let’s take a closer look at the four most reasons why you need both.
1. People make mistakes.
Even the most credible and professional employees are only humans. They can potentially lose or damage their hardware, accidentally delete some important data, fall victim to phishing giving hackers access to the corporate IT system. You never know where a threat will come from. It is best to be ready 24/7 and have a reliable disaster recovery plan and recently made backup data copy. It will enable you to get business back on track in no time.
2. Technology and hardware fail.
A power outage can cause downtime that might affect your bottom line. Laptops with necessary documentation can be damaged or suddenly stop working. Software failures could potentially result in losing customers’ loyalty and trust. Sometimes a data backup copy stored in the cloud can virtually rescue your business and prevent reputation damage.
3. Natural disasters can happen anytime
Extreme heat, deep freezes, mass flooding, earthquakes, wildfires, tornados, and other natural disasters greatly impact people’s lives. All these factors are out of our control. Unfortunately, natural disasters are unpredictable. A recent example is a blaze that destroyed several servers of the largest European cloud service provider in March 2021. It impacted dozens of well-known businesses (Blaze Destroys Servers at Europe’s Largest Cloud Services Firm | World News | US News). It underlined the importance of having a disaster recovery plan in place.
4. Cyberattacks are on the Rise
Cybercrimes are increasing not just in number but also in sophistication. A new generation of threats requires advanced security solutions to defend your IT systems from dangerous attacks. And when sophisticated threats meet weak cybersecurity, it turns into a recipe for disaster. That is why the recent backup of critical business data should always be done and kept in reliable storage to recover the information you need and keep operations running.
Keep in mind that technologies evolve rapidly. So, even the best disaster recovery plan must be reviewed and actualized regularly. Contact us and discover how to protect your IT infrastructure and data in an effective and stress-less way.
