Backup and Disaster Recovery solutions may look quite expensive and making a huge investment at this stage may appear unnecessary. Basically, disaster recovery solutions are like insurance policies to your organisation. They save your organisation and its reputation at the right time. Even a simple human mistake or a network outage can cause tremendous loss to your company. Here are my below justifications which will make you think why a disaster recovery is so important.
Are humans perfect? No: They are erroneous: It is not that every time we save all our important documents before a crash. Sometimes, we accidentally delete data from a file in a hurry and make processes more tedious. By using online backups, your accidentally deleted data will still be stored in the backup server and you can easily restore them in seconds.
Make customer retention easy: Customers may easily tend to lose trust during critical times especially when the downtime is more. They lose thousands of dollars during their downtime per minute and any disaster is merely unacceptable.
Only a disaster recovery plan will help you in the situations of crash and downtimes to retain your customers eternally. Because once you lose customers’ trust, regaining the trust is next to impossible, and finding new customers become troublesome.
Independent on hardware failures: While I want to start this topic by saying that recent IT industry is mostly immune to hardware failures, still network failures are quite common and eliminating any single point failure in an IT infrastructure will be more expensive.
To beat this situation, a disaster recovery plan will regularly backup data and eliminates interruptions in case of failures, so that the applications can keep running without any interruptions. Even during any hardware failures, your data will not be lost and be secured forever.
Disasters can be natural: As we all very much know about the power of nature, a natural calamity can almost account to closing the business. For instance, if there is a fire accident, you can retrieve your company from loss by claiming insurance; however you cannot retrieve your organisation’s data unless you’ve backed it up. At the least, a business needs upto 1 week to resume its operation in case a calamity hits. If your business already has a disaster recovery plan, you can resume your business with all the data you’ve backed up and hence the name.
Nonstop access to customers: If your customers face any infrastructure issues, they won’t be able to access data at that particular time. In order to avoid these scenarios, a well designed backup and disaster recovery solutions will help customers to provide data access at anytime they need.
Be prepared for any IT disaster and keep in mind that any disaster should not interrupt customer’s business. Think wisely and enable a disaster recovery plan to your business and don’t let your customers to give a chance to your competitor in line.
Vembu is providing Backup and Disaster Recovery options through different software options as per the customer needs through Vembu BDR Suite.
- Vembu VMBackup: Vembu VMBackup is backup and disaster recovery solution for the virtualized data centres. It supports both the VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V.
- Vembu ImageBackup: Vembu ImageBackup is a disk image based backup and recovery software for the Windows Physical Servers, Desktops and Laptops.
- Vembu NetworkBackup: Vembu NetworkBackup is a backup software to backup your desktops/laptops, file servers, applications like Microsoft Exchange, SQL, etc.
- Vembu OnlineBackup: Vembu OnlineBackup is a Cloud Backup Solution to backup your files and applications directly to Vembu Cloud.
- Vembu SaaSBackup: Vembu SaaSBackup is a backup and recovery software for SaaS Applications (Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps).
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