Challenges

Organisations are losing up to $1.7 trillion each year through data loss and unplanned downtime.

Ask these key questions of your business:

  • Does the backup data need to be compliant, or confidential? Do you need your backups encrypted — both in transit and at rest — to meet SEC, HIPAA, PCI, or Sarbanes-Oxley compliance requirements? Do you need to choose a provider that can meet specific audited compliance requirements for your industry?

  • How secure does your backup strategy need to be? Do you need to take measures to ensure data security? Is the backup data secure from theft, or unauthorised access?

  • How will GDPR effect your ability to search, recover, or delete backup data? Are you aware of the requirements for The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679)? Can you search and delete selective back data when required to, even when residing on tape?

  • What is your data recovery strategy? If you lose a file, how quickly do you need it be restored and if you lose a server, how quickly can the server be recovered? If you lose your data centre, how quickly can your business be up and running again? Backup to the cloud can be very cost effective but can you be sure you will get the data back across the internet in a timely manner?

  • Do you need a cloud backup partner that can provide cloud servers for you to quickly restore your data in the case of a disaster? Is disaster recovery in the cloud something that would streamline business continuity?

  • How automated is your backup procedure and how many man-hours are required to manage failed backups? Are these overlooked costs to the business without the understanding of how often backups fail, or how much time is spent managing the backups every day?

  • How robust is the backup function? Is it designed to withstand drives, hardware, network and data centre failures?