The Need for Overnight Fast Data Recovery
Database backup and recovery used to be just a portion of many IT budgets, yearly SOPs we had to spend on because, well, it was the thing to do. But many of us considered it something remotely needed – especially when in many cases conventional backup was enough. Then 9/11 and the hurricanes happened. And the demand for overnight fast data recovery grew.
All of a sudden it’s all too real that any business can shut down because we can’t access data. Even a home-based Internet business that sells, say, personalized t-shirts has a database of customers and new orders to be filled.
If server access was down, payment, processing, and shipping of orders will come to a screeching halt and the small business will be dealt a huge financial blow. Multiply this many times over for just the delivery portion of booming businesses and it is easy to see that hundreds of millions of dollars could be lost without overnight fast data recovery.
The best kind of data recovery is one that your business can perform in-house. Do-it-yourself data recovery means huge savings and record turnaround times that contractor services probably can’t provide.
This is the reason why more and more software publishers are selling out-of-the-box data backup and recovery programs. And if you perform regular backups and are diligent about keeping updated records offsite, when data threats happen you can get your business up and running again within hours.
