Conquer Your Fear of Data Loss with Cloud Backup |
The Impact of Data Loss
Ask yourself this, and be very honest about the answer: do you have a nagging fear of losing important company documents or your infrastructure crashing? Or worse, have you seen the blue screen of death at 8:40 pm on a Sunday and been summoned to deal with the aftermath?
It is very likely, that you or somebody you know have a horror story of data loss to share. Situations like these severely impact your business continuity and productivity. In fact, 72% of organizations are unable to protect their data frequently or reliably, according to the Veeam Availability Report , based on a survey of over 1,000 IT organizations. Further, 82% of enterprises cite inadequate recovery capabilities compared to their SLA requirements.
Even more troubling, the Veeam Availability Report research outlines a 36% increase in year-over-year incidents. Downtime and data loss cause loss of customer trust, damage brand integrity, affect employee morale and divert resources from
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The Cost of Downtime
Not only is data loss a concern, but the fast and efficient recovery of that data can also be problematic. Recovery takes IT time and resources. Productivity of other teams and core corporate operations can also suffer when critical data become unavailable.
If your local data environment became corrupted, how would that affect your production? The average length of an outage is 23 minutes. It may not sound like a long time, but put this into perspective: imagine a hospital with data unavailable for 23 minutes. Or an e-commerce business with a website down for 23 minutes.
If this number doesn’t make you break out in cold sweat, consider this: The median tolerable downtime among high-priority applications is 7.5 minutes and 90 minutes for normal applications. A 23-minute outage is an eternity for these high-priority applications. Even though 23 minutes seems like a manageable timeframe for normal applications, many would also have breached their SLAs with such an outage (Veeam Availability Report).
Approximately one out of every four servers will suffer an unplanned outage annually, and the cost of that downtime is high. According to TechTarget’s Whitepaper, every hour of downtime costs $100,000. And worse, for the average enterprise, these costs are growing and can extend into millions of dollars annually (Veeam Availability Report).
Incorporating Cloud Backup into Your Data Protection Strategy
Only 15% of decision-makers express high confidence in their backup capabilities. Can your organization afford incomplete recovery of lost data, indefinite delays to recover it, and the potential downtime to your business operations? While not a panacea, cloud backup can help solve many of these problems and reduce the risk of losing crucial data, easily meet your compliance goals, and free up the resources needed for higher-value digital transformation initiatives to prosper. Veeam Availability Report states, 66% of enterprises admit that digital transformation initiatives are being held back by unplanned downtime.
Here are three key reasons to consider a cloud backup strategy as identified by our engineers:
1. Cloud backup lowers the risk of data loss
To most effectively reduce the risk of data loss, you need to maintain three copies of your data,- your production data, a local copy for immediate recovery, and one copy offsite. Why maintain a copy offsite? It protects you from catastrophic events such as fires, floods, power outages, and brown-outs that can have devastating effects on the safety of the intellectual property, customer databases, and other mission-critical data that your organization depends on. Cloud backup is a simple and easy solution for getting your backup copy offsite.
2. Cloud Backup Reduces TCO
Cloud backup can increase your department’s reliability and productivity. It also reduces the total cost of ownership. What better way to shine in the eyes of the Finance department and finally get approval for other upgrades you have been dying to do? Say these magical words to the CFO, “Cloud backup will move us to an OPEX purchasing model.” It is much easier to budget for and manage pay-as-you-go cloud backup services, compared to a CAPEX spending model for offsite backups.
Some of the contributing factors driving up the costs of an in-house solution include the procurement of additional backup target hardware, additional software license costs, plus the upfront overprovisioning of resources to meet long term needs and the hassle of ongoing maintenance, upgrades, and platform expansions.
3. Cloud backup helps optimize your IT resources
Between managing the end-user helpdesk and battling unstable infrastructure issues, wouldn’t it be nice to maximize the use of your IT resources? By implementing a cloud-based backup solution, you leverage the knowledge, experience, and resources of a service provider to create a secure, high performing, highly-available offsite backup infrastructure. And knowing that your data is safe and secure, you now can focus your energy and resources toward the projects that can directly impact your top and bottom line.
Achieve Peace of Mind
Set your organization up with Cloud Backup. Now that money you were saving for work-related anxiety therapy can be spent on a nice vacation.
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