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Data Protection Challenges - When Data is Your Business

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Whether you're a billion dollar financial

services firm or a twenty-person regional service provider, you are probably

increasingly dependent on your data for your day-to-day operations.

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But the deluge of major virus attacks, multi-city

power outages and natural disasters, combined with the less publicized problems

such as equipment failures, network interruptions or simple human error - all

add up to major risks to protecting your business's critical information.

New factors that have increased data protection

risks include:

· The exponential growth of business information

generated every day means even more and more data has to be backed up

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· Customers expect services to resume rapidly

after a business disruption - regardless of the circumstances

· The increasing need to access data almost

around the clock has dramatically shrunk the time permitted to backup data.

Today's data protection challenge poses

substantial risks to companies of all sizes, but they pose the greatest risk to

small and midsize businesses.

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Data Protection Pain Points

Limited IT resources for backup and recovery.

Many small and midsize businesses have little or

no dedicated IT personnel to respond quickly tobusiness interruptions.

Critical data all on one server.

If that server goes down, most offices have to get that

server running and fully restored ASAP, or face costly consequences

Regulatory pressures.

Small and midsize businesses are subject to the same data

availability and data protection requirements as large corporations for

regulations such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and SEC Rule 17 — but without

thebig budgets to meet these requirements

Cash flow disruptions even more damaging.

Business disruptions that can't be quickly

recovered from can quickly start to imp act cash flow — something few small

and midsize businesses can afford.

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  • Tips for addressing paint

    points

    • Think People, Policies and Priorities First

    • Get the Data out of the Building

    • Calculate the cost of downtime

    • Think beyond tape for to achieve your recovery

      objectives

    • Make it easy for users to restore themselves

    • Make sure you can restore in different situations

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    Source: NSI Software

     

     

     

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