Reduce risk of Data Loss
World Backup Day is not only a call to action for businesses to review their backup and security strategy but also a stark reminder of the value of business critical content. WD urges SMBs to put together their own backup plan using its top five tips.
According to a study carried out by Price Waterhouse Coopers a single incident of data loss costs businesses an average of $10,000. Gartner also reveals that 25% of all PC users suffer from data loss each year and that 80% of businesses that suffer a major data loss or failure for more than 24 hours close within a year. Not properly backing up your data can result in data loss that can have a detrimental impact on business: damage to your brand, loss of customer trust, civil and/or criminal penalties, shareholder lawsuits, and more.
The tips WD has put together for SMBs that want to reduce the risk of data loss are: Keep your data and applications backed up; Point of recovery time - what lifespan of data is the most important; Online or on site - you should not only backup the data locally, but also keep a copy in off-site storage to ensure faster data disaster recovery times; Test. Test. Test - The only thing worse than not backing up your data is not properly backing up your data.; Don't forget your servers - Your business data is not just what's in the "My Documents" folder.
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