Is Your World Crashing Around You?
October 11th, 2008 by Ryan Chantler
Who isn’t being affected by all the craziness in our world? With the global financial markets failing on every continent and economic instability rampant everywhere, this is a time to make sure you’ve got your bases covered.
I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity earlier this week to speak to 78 people on “Avoiding a Business Disaster” which I think is extremely relevant to all businesses in all industries. Not only are companies running on the financial razor’s edge, but the majority of businesses big and small, successful and not-so-much are completely ignoring the importance of protecting their computer data.
With a bankruptcy rate of 94% for companies that have a major data loss, there isn’t much else to be said. Computers are extremely important in all businesses and the data that get’s created on them is irreplaceable. I always tell people, “It’s easy to buy a new computer, but there is no store on earth that sells your data!”. If you lose it, it’s gone forever! So if you’re not proactive and make the small investment to implement a quality data backup and more importantly data recovery solution, then you are asking for trouble. It’s not a matter of “if”, but a matter “when” your business will experience computer problems and major data loss. Computers aren’t perfect, and we the users are definitely nowhere close to perfect.
You must automatically back up your data onsite and to a long-term secure offsite storage provider or you will only have a small chance of recovering your data “when” you lose it. There are very few backup solutions that actually give you a fighting chance of not losing your data. Tapes don’t, disk backup doesn’t, and definitely most online only backup providers don’t. That’s right, online backup sucks too! Have you ever tried downloading gigs and gigs of data over the internet? Especially from home / professional online only backup services that you pay less for than a cup of coffee? I only have one thing to say about the fact that 70% of recoveries fail with most backup solutions… What’s the point in backup, if you can’t recover?
Enough with me ranting. As you may be well aware, I am extremely passionate about the proper protection of computer data. It is our business to assure that our clients have the best chance of recovering their data accurately and on-time when they need it most. It pains me to see that close to 100% of businesses are not using an adequate data protection solution.
There are many factors that make up a proper backup and recovery solution; onsite backup, offsite backup, granular recovery, bulk recovery, security, compression, data integrity, automation, archiving, efficiency, incremental-forever storage, geopolitical location, geographical location, long-term secure storage, customer service, total cost of ownership, long-term data management, future-proofing, affordability, etc…the list goes on and on. All these factors and many more have been considered by us at Toggle Networks to build the best backup and recovery service available on the market today.
When your world is crashing and it’s taking your data with it, Toggle will be here to make sure you don’t lose a thing. Now the financial markets crashing is a different story, as we haven’t figured out how to recover your money yet!
