Small businesses are often forgotten when people talk about companies being more resilient. That’s a big mistake. While big businesses likely have the resources to recover from a disaster, for small businesses that’s often not the case. In fact, according to FEMA, 40 percent of small businesses never reopen after a disaster, and 90% fail… Read more »
Read the ArticleThe average ransom demand of ransomware is around $84,000 according to Emsisoft. While it’s a cost many enterprises could pay if forced to, it’s also enough to have a huge impact on a small or medium-sized business. Add to that the fact that ransomware causes expensive downtime, which according to Gartner, can cost up to… Read more »
Read the ArticleAccording to IDC, people now create and generate more than 1.8 zettabytes of data per year, so there’s plenty of data to lose. Yet, there are still huge numbers of businesses and individuals that don’t back up their data regularly. How many? Nearly 30% of consumers have never backed up their data, and of those… Read more »
Read the ArticleLet’s say you’re hit with ransomware. You’re concerned, but you feel comfortable knowing that you’ve been taking local backups. You’re confident you can restore a clean backup taken before the infection and get the affected systems back online. No worries. But you start to panic when you realize you made a mistake. As you set… Read more »
Read the ArticleThis is the fourth of four posts where we take a close look into the elements that have put DRaaS solutions at the top of most businesses’ lists for data protection. Failback is the Follow-On to Failover While failover is the process of switching to a backup source, failback is the process of restoring your… Read more »
Read the ArticleThis is the third of four posts where we take a close look into the elements that have put DRaaS solutions at the top of most businesses’ lists for data protection. Failover: The Core Driver for Business Continuity Failover is a backup operational mode that switches to a standby database, server, or network if your… Read more »
Read the ArticleThis is the second of four posts where we take a close look into the elements that have put DRaaS solutions at the top of most businesses’ lists for data protection. Replication: Distributed Backups Maximize Data Protection Keeping it simple, data replication is the process of updating copies of your data in multiple places at… Read more »
Read the ArticleThis is the first of four posts where we will take a close look into the elements that have put DRaaS solutions at the top of most businesses’ lists for data protection. While the stakes may be higher if you’re a global enterprise, every business gets hurt when downtime strikes. At the top end,… Read more »
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