Posts Tagged ‘backup’
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: Which is Right for You?
Business continuity and disaster recovery: you’ve probably heard of them before, but how much do you know about them? Though the two terms are often used interchangeably, they don’t mean the same thing at all. Effectively planning how to manage data in the event of downtime or disasters requires you to have a deep understanding…
Read MoreAzure Cloud Backup as a Service (BaaS)
Let’s face it, maintaining your own data center infrastructure is a thing of the past. The return on investment (ROI) is negative. On top of that, managing additional hardware in multiple locations to handle backups is just plain overwhelming and time consuming. To get the biggest bang for your buck you should leverage a cloud…
Read MoreHow Cloud Hosting Saves You When Disaster Strikes
Many of us have experienced this scenario: you arrive at work to find that the power is out in your building. Perhaps there was a storm the night before, or some joy-rider crashed his truck into a pole holding a power line. You cannot access your company’s data because the server is down. Even those working remotely…
Read MoreAzure Site Recovery & Azure Backup for Local Servers and Workstations
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) and Azure Backup are two powerful services that work together to ensure that you have a complete business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) solution for your local servers and workstations. With ASR replicating your applications, and Azure Backup securely copying and restoring your data, your concerns over on-premises outages and data loss can give…
Read MoreHow Azure Site Recovery and Backup Will Help You Build a Reliable Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) Strategy
Among the challenges facing your business is ensuring that your data is safe and recoverable, and that your apps and workloads are running in the event of a planned or unplanned outage. Said differently, your business needs a reliable business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) strategy. Azure, which Microsoft describes as “a growing collection of…
Read MoreAzure Services: Azure Backup
There are many backup systems available out there these days, but not all of them have the particular unique advantages of Azure Backup. Here are some of the benefits of the Azure Backup service in terms of how it can enhance the functioning of your business. Azure Backup Overview Any service that focuses on backup…
Read More7 Reasons Azure Backup is an Affordable Option for Cloud Backup
For businesses and organizations across industries, data backups are vital. You have to make sure that even in the event something happens to your sometimes confidential data, you can quickly restore it to prevent significant hurdles to continuing your normal operations. If no backup solution is in place, even getting back to regular business ops…
Read MoreHow to Protect Your Company from the Rogue IT Ex-Employee
It’s become fairly common to hear horror stories of the ex-employee who decided to “take the company down in flames” as they exited. Be it extortion, like what happened in Indiana in January, or the ex-employee who maintains a backdoor account and proceeds to hack your data. It is important in this day and age…
Read MoreCloud Backup: Why It Works and Why You Should Use It
Cloud backup is rapidly becoming the go-to method of backing up data. It is significantly more efficient than other options. Disaster recovery methods have improved over the past few years. But they are not yet at a level where you can say you no longer need a backup solution. We wanted to showcase exactly why…
Read MoreThe Pros and Cons of Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
Recent statistics show that an hour of downtime costs a small business around $8,000. If disaster strikes, you need to be prepared. It’s no wonder why cloud backup has become the next big thing. After all, business data can be lost quickly, and it can cost you everything. It seems that 51% of small businesses still use…
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