What do you do when the “bad thing” happens in your business? You grab your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan and follow it.
Even on a good day, being a business owner is challenging. Apart from dealing with and effectively solving multiple problems, you also need the foresight to arm your business with the right tools and solutions to tackle any issues that might arise later. A Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan is one of those tools and it defines what actions should be taken when certain events occur.
One issue you should always prioritize is data loss/data corruption and business disruption that cause downtime and productivity dips. Remember that data loss/data corruption and business disruption could happen due to various reasons, such as:
- Natural calamity
- Hardware failure
- Human error
- Software corruption
- Computer viruses
Adopting a comprehensive backup and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) strategy is the best way to tackle this problem.
What is a comprehensive backup and Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) strategy?
A comprehensive backup and BCDR strategy emphasizes the need for various technologies working together to deliver uptime. It even highlights technologies associated with cybersecurity. A robust strategy:
Protects all systems, devices and workloads
Managing all systems, devices and workloads efficiently, securely, and consistently can be challenging. Mistakes, errors, mishaps, and outright failures across backup and recovery systems could happen at any time, leading to severe downtime or other costly business consequences. That’s why it’s essential to have a reliable and secure solution to back up and protect business data as well as business systems, devices, and workloads.
Ensures the integrity, availability and accessibility of data
The complexity of IT, network and data environments that include multiple sites — cloud, on-premises, and remote — makes monitoring and protection difficult. It negatively affects the integrity, availability, and accessibility of information and all IT network assets. That’s why it’s best practice to simultaneously deploy tools or systems that cover all IT and network infrastructure (remote, cloud and on-site) with the same level of protection and security.
Enables business resilience and continuity
A comprehensive and realistically achievable backup and BCDR strategy prioritizes, facilitates, and ensures the continuity of business operations. It represents a business’ resiliency against downtime or data loss incidents.
Prioritizes critical protection and security requirements against internal and external risks
No backup or BCDR solution can be effective if your business does not proactively identify and mitigate internal and external risks. You need tools that focus on internal and external threats through constant monitoring, alerting and tactical defense to empower your backup and BCDR strategy.
Optimizes and reduces storage needs and costs through deduplication
With the amount of data skyrocketing day after day, it poses serious storage and budgetary challenges for businesses. What makes things worse is the existence of multiple unnecessary copies of the same files. Therefore, adopting the deduplication process can identify data repetition and ensure that no similar data is stored unnecessarily.
Manages visibility and unauthorized access and fulfills data retention requirements
Your business data must never be visible to every employee in the same way. There must be policies and tools to ensure that an employee accesses only data essential to completing their tasks. Also, unauthorized access must be identified and blocked immediately. This is crucial not only for the success of backups and BCDR but also for maintaining compliance with all regulatory mandates related to data protection and retention.
Comprehensive backup and BCDR for your business
By now, it must be clear to you that adopting a comprehensive backup and BCDR strategy is not an option but a necessity. An occasional, severe data loss incident or disruption could even open the gates for your competitors to eat into your profits and customer base.
You must do everything possible to bring all the right tools and strategies together so your business can operate seamlessly, even in the face of chaos. Are you ready to approach the concept of comprehensive backup and BCDR practically?
It isn’t as difficult as you might think. Collaborate with an expert partner like ITNS Consulting. We have the knowledge and experience to take care of your backup and BCDR needs.
Schedule a no-obligation consultation to get started.
