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Why Every Business Needs An IT Disaster Recovery Plan

If you run a business then you will know that you just cannot risk the integrity of your data to loss, malfunction of mischievous manipulation. Over the years companies have implemented a myriad of different IT disaster recovery strategies in order to back up and recover their data in the advent of attack, system failure or human error.

These IT disaster recovery services have taken the form of both hardware and IT disaster recovery software based solutions and have all been designed to perform regular backups to let you recover from system failures, virus attacks, or natural disasters or in the event of intruder attacks – to restore your data to its last authentic position.

Many companies still rely on IT disaster recovery services that are tape based and this can be a little risky, if you leave it in the hands of an employee that is busy, frequently ill, or does not perform adequately.

By relying solely on tape backup for IT disaster recovery management, then you really do need to review your IT disaster recovery strategy. These days – with the new complexities of the business, IT infrastructure and the increase in volumes of data being created you really do have to ask yourself if your existing IT disaster recovery services are enough to restore your data rapidly enough so that you can continue to trade and operate.

Research has shown that 50% of companies that lose critical data for more than 10 days never recover to the profit position they were carrying at the time of the loss, 43% of companies experiencing a data loss never reopen, and 29% of the remaining companies close within two years of the loss occurring.

If you can’t afford to take IT disaster recovery failure risks with your corporate data, then you might want to consider other IT disaster recovery services apart from your existing and perhaps outdated or unreliable strategy.

Tape has been traditional and stead fast solution for physical disaster recovery for years and for that we need to be eternally grateful. But the reality is that tape just does not make the grade anymore and many companies are fast realizing that tape cannot fit in with their long term IT disaster recovery plan.

Although the cost of magnetic tape per megabyte means that will be used for many years to come, improved IT disaster recovery software and technology is eroding the dominance of tape across the world, for day-to-day backup and recovery tasks.

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