Top 10 Reasons To Outsource Remote Data Protection By Frank Brick, Arsenal Digital Solutions
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In today's information driven organizations, the costs to generate, keep available, manage and recover data are staggering. Many businesses today depend on 100 percent data availability to keep mission-critical functions operating. With the increasingly widespread reliance upon data, the costs of interrupted access to data or data losses could financially compromise an organization and, in some cases, leave it no room to recover. The price of downtime is just too steep.
Despite the best efforts of IT teams everywhere, downtime occurs. As a result, data protection and business continuity planning have taken on increased visibility in businesses of every size.
What began as a frenzy following the catastrophe of 9/11, has emerged into a very legitimate and ongoing business concern. Business continuity has become a central theme in IT organizations, and every executive across the business needs to understand the importance of data protection and the risks of data loss.
With the ever increasing cost and complexity of managing internal storage systems (despite an overall trend of lower hardware prices), the continued growth and importance of corporate data, and a bevy of new regulatory requirements and technological threats, CIOs and CEOs are on high alert. This has created a rising sense of anxiety and vulnerability to the risk of data loss.
At the top of this list of fears is the devastating impact of downtime including financial and legal liability, lost revenue, irreparable customer and investor confidence, and lost productivity. As a result, today's CIOs and CEOs share a common goal of finding more reliable, more affordable ways to protect themselves and their company.
Fortunately, with the reach and capacity of today's networks, and advances in storage technologies, companies now have an option for data protection that was inaccessible to them just a few years ago – highly efficient remote data backup and recovery using secure off-site facilities.
Using their existing networks, companies can now realize the benefits of highly reliable remote backups more cost-effectively than internal tape-based backups. Backups that used to take hours to internal tape systems now take minutes – automatically – to secure off-site storage facilities from servers, desktops and laptops anywhere across your multiple business offices. Because the remote backups occur automatically, this approach also removes the human element from traditional data protection which, ironically, is the cause of most data loss. In turn, remote data protection avoids the time delays, human error, expense, and security risk of internal tape-based backup and restores.
To help you better understand the advantages of remote data protection, here is a list of the top 10 reasons to outsource remote data protection.
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Frank Brick is chairman and CEO of Arsenal Digital Solutions (Cary, NC). Frank can be reached at frank.brick@arsenaldigital.com. Visit www.arsenaldigital.com.