Data Backup

Your data represents the core of your business. You have invested a lot of time, money and effort in developing your business data. Contracts, sales records, proposals, accounting records, marketing material, business contacts, emails etc., make up the bulk of your invaluable business assets, which you cannot afford to lose.

Your data is vital for your daily business operations. The loss of your data, or even temporary loss of access to your data, may threaten your hard-earned competitive position.

Loss of business data may ruin your company’s reputation, and may lead to expensive litigation.

"Companies without proactive data backup and recovery policies are likely to be OUT OF BUSINESS within 1 year of a major data loss event." - source Gartner

How often have files been deleted by mistake? How many times have extensive changes been made to a document and then you suddenly realise you need the original version back again? It doesn't have to happen many times to become time consuming and frustrating.

Hard disks introduce a mechanical aspect to your computer systems. All mechanical devices wear down and eventually fail. Today's hard disks are certainly far more reliable than those of 10 or 20 years ago - but that doesn't mean that there can't be a catastrophic failure within the lifetime of a server or desktop machine.

If your business data is not backed up, then you need to be thinking about this NOW.  Take a look at How to Backup if you're unsure how to go about this vital task.