For many Dallas small businesses, their work is largely done via computer, with files, contracts, records and even customer relationship management all managed online. For these companies, without the in-house IT departments and dedicated team of professional found in large business, putting all that data in one place is very risky move.
Even with top security and network vulnerability scans in place, there is still the risk of loss of data due to unforeseen hardware failures or corruption of files or software systems. There is also a very real risk of physical damage to servers and hard drives, which could be a significant enough event to cause a business to fail.
An Important Decision
While it is possible for a company to get by on storing data on a secure server and having a backup copy of everything in another location, this is time-consuming. It is also risky as a backup, and disaster recovery will only be as current as the last manual or scheduled save, which may mean days of data will be lost.
A better option is to use an automatic backup and disaster recovery in the cloud. This is a real-time backup of all data throughout the network, which means the data is saved as it is entered, so there is no data loss in the event of either a physical issue with the storage or a system glitch.
It is important to realize that the term backup and disaster recovery are really two separate functions. Backup is the storage of the data and disaster recovery is the ability to access the data and keep the system up and running.
With cloud-based technology disaster recovery can be instantaneous, allowing virtual systems to keep all essential software and applications running until the physical server or hardware issue can be fixed. Dallas small businesses with this option in place will never see a disruption in service due to server problems or system failure.
