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Disaster Recovery for Business Continuity Planning
Back-up Solution to Replace Obsolete Tape-Drives!
For companies experiencing a “major loss” of computer records, a recent study revealed the following:
- 43 percent never reopened,
- 51 percent closed within two years of the loss,
- Only 6 percent survived over the long-term.
For small and medium-sized businesses (SMB’s) in particular, these statistics suggest the necessity of crafting a Disaster Recovery strategy grounded in a robust data backup solution.
Unlike enterprises, many smaller companies cannot afford optimal in-house strategies and solutions to service Disaster Recovery. These companies are consequently at an elevated risk of being put out of business due to any major loss of data. Loss of data could mean emails lost, accounting data lost, patient or client files lost, company records lost, client legal records or orders lost and so on.
Planning for Small and Medium Size Businesses
Data-oriented Disaster Recovery, an indispensable component of business planning regardless of organization size, poses many challenges. Smaller businesses generally lack the in-house IT resources to achieve these demanding planning, technical and process requirements. Therefore, many SMBs either neglect to implement any data-oriented planning or else approach data backup and recovery in a sporadic, rudimentary fashion that fails to conform to best practices.
It is crucial for SMBs to understand their backup and disaster recovery options. First, “Backups” are snapshots of your data taken on the server and act as the basic building blocks for securing your data. How secure that information is depends on where you back it up (on or off-site) and how often. Second, a “Disaster Recovery Plan” refers to how companies recover from a large-scale natural or man-made disaster. Therefore, to ensure your business endures the loss of the aforementioned critical components, it includes both Back-ups and a Disaster Recovery Plan, while also offering Business Succession Planning to strengthen operations.
Ceeva Solution
Ceeva is now offering a device with a combination hardware and software solution that allows for a local back-up of all your data and applications, granular restore options, a fail-over virtualized server and a complete off-site data back-up service. Our NAS (network attached storage) server will be linked with your network infrastructure to allow for business continuity, entire disk space back-up in 15-minute increments, virtual server switch-over within 30 minutes of server failure and complete data restoration to a new server within 96 hours.
Tape back-ups are physically delicate and easily compromised by environmental factors such as heat, humidity, and magnetic interference. They must be replaced frequently (every 6-12 months) and their innate sensitivity contributes to high failure rates. Analysts estimate that anywhere from 42 to 71 percent of tape restorations fail. Tapes are subject to loss or theft, and may be in the possession of an employee or vendor unable to reach a recovery site. Thus, even when physical backup and restoration processes succeed, tapes may not prove to be as timely and appropriate a medium for data storage as disk. Time is a crucial consideration because each hour of server, application, and network downtime endured comes at a high cost, especially to smaller businesses.
Contact Ceeva today to learn about our Back-up and Disaster Recovery unit. Our solution is affordable, easily installed; provides versatility to meet your unique requirements and extremely dependable. Our services include implementation of the device; on-going maintenance and off-site data back-up.
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