Companies come into one of several categories where data recovery is concerned:
• Those that realise that their business is largely data-driven and that the loss of their data would cripple their operations – possibly fatally. They take steps to protect themselves against such a possibility
• Companies that know nothing of the risks involved and as a result, who take no preventative measures
• Those that think they have protection in place but which, in reality, is woefully inadequate.
• Organisations that think the risks are not significant and that the area is hyped-up through scare tactics in order to sell expensive data recovery solutions Melbourne.
Here at Server Sentry, we know with a sad certainty that companies in the last three categories are sooner or later going to have the reality of their vulnerabilities made only too clear to them after a disaster.
In some cases that’s going to lead to regret, recriminations, post-mortems, firings and in extreme situations, the end of their business.
So, what is the solution?
We make no apologies for continually preaching the need for increased corporate awareness as far as data recovery solutions are concerned. It’s one thing to realistically assess the risks to your organisation arising from a catastrophic loss of data then decide to do nothing. It’s entirely another to do nothing through a lack of awareness.
Nor are data recovery solutions simply a case of copying files and information onto another secure site. For example, there are issues to do with cycles of backup and currency of data.
So, if you ask your provider of data recovery solutionsto restore your files as they were at the end of your last financial quarter for audit purposes, you might not want to hear at that stage, for the first time, that they only keep backups for 30 days.
Equally, if you lose an entire day’s work at say 4pm, would you prefer to restore your data to the last time a backup was taken at say five minutes before, 12pm that day or perhaps at 8pm the day before? Keep in mind anything done between your last backup and your disaster may be irretrievably lost.
That’s why professional data recovery solutionsand their analysis are critically important.
• Those that realise that their business is largely data-driven and that the loss of their data would cripple their operations – possibly fatally. They take steps to protect themselves against such a possibility
• Companies that know nothing of the risks involved and as a result, who take no preventative measures
• Those that think they have protection in place but which, in reality, is woefully inadequate.
• Organisations that think the risks are not significant and that the area is hyped-up through scare tactics in order to sell expensive data recovery solutions Melbourne.
Here at Server Sentry, we know with a sad certainty that companies in the last three categories are sooner or later going to have the reality of their vulnerabilities made only too clear to them after a disaster.
In some cases that’s going to lead to regret, recriminations, post-mortems, firings and in extreme situations, the end of their business.
So, what is the solution?
We make no apologies for continually preaching the need for increased corporate awareness as far as data recovery solutions are concerned. It’s one thing to realistically assess the risks to your organisation arising from a catastrophic loss of data then decide to do nothing. It’s entirely another to do nothing through a lack of awareness.
Nor are data recovery solutions simply a case of copying files and information onto another secure site. For example, there are issues to do with cycles of backup and currency of data.
So, if you ask your provider of data recovery solutionsto restore your files as they were at the end of your last financial quarter for audit purposes, you might not want to hear at that stage, for the first time, that they only keep backups for 30 days.
Equally, if you lose an entire day’s work at say 4pm, would you prefer to restore your data to the last time a backup was taken at say five minutes before, 12pm that day or perhaps at 8pm the day before? Keep in mind anything done between your last backup and your disaster may be irretrievably lost.
That’s why professional data recovery solutionsand their analysis are critically important.
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