Who Needs Disaster Recovery?

Who Needs Disaster Recovery?

Business continuity relies on off-site backup and seamless recoverability, especially in the event of a technical or natural disaster.

According to the International Data Corporation, at least 15% of small to medium-sized businesses are doing absolutely no backup. Perhaps you’re one of them, or part of the 60% that performs only partial backups to a local, on-site storage device.  If that’s true, and a disaster strikes, business-critical data could be at risk.

A disaster that takes down your IT system could cost hundreds of dollars per minute of downtime, so it’s important to assess your readiness and create a plan to minimize the impact. Provident Technology or your IT team can help with this and advise you on the most suitable backup and disaster recovery solutions for your needs. Be sure to find out how your backups are currently managed, where they are being stored, and what business operations might be affected during outages and restoration. If your assessment leads you to investigating a new data recovery product or service, here are some key points to keep in mind:

6 CRITERIA FOR SMALL BUSINESS DATA PROTECTION

  1. Recoverability - Does the solution have instant restore capability? Does it meet both recovery time and recovery point objectives?
  2. Comprehensiveness - Experts agree that a combination of on-site and cloud-based services offer the best protection for businesses of all sizes.
  3. Ease of Use - Is the system easy to use, deploy, and manage? Does it require training? How much support is available?
  4. Performance and Reliability - Know the difference between full and incremental backup. Full backups are quick to restore, but require a lot of storage space.  Incremental backups reduce duplicate files by targeting only the ones that were changed since the last backup, but require greater time to restore.
  5. Affordability - An easy one. Is the solution cost-effective?
  6. Scalability - Make sure the solution not only meets your data backup needs today but can scale as your company grows.

Provident Technology is pleased to offer the first-ever backup and disaster recovery solution designed specifically for small business, the Datto ALTO. It is at once a scalable, affordable, and advanced backup, disaster recovery and business continuity solution. It is both easy to use and cost-effective, and significantly decreases the likelihood and negative impact of downtime.

We believe that businesses of every size are entitled to a robust solution to backup their mission critical data. Call today to find out more about business continuity and disaster recovery solutions for your small business, (215) 278-4090.