Are Your Prepared? Don’t Lose Your Data…
Businesses rely heavily on their data; losing it can have disastrous consequences. There is a difference between backup services and disaster recovery strategies to help you protect your valuable information.
What’s the difference BETWEEN Backup and Disaster Recovery Services
WHAT IS BACKUP?
Backing up your data through an offsite system, such as cloud backup, protects against data loss. This is an essential service that every business should employ to avoid losing critical information.
BENEFITS OF BACKUP
Backing up your valuable data provides peace of mind that your data is safely stored, ensures timely restoration in the event of data loss, and minimizes downtime for your business.
WHAT IS DISASTER RECOVERY?
Disaster Recovery (DR) is a strategy to recover critical data and infrastructure following an event such as a natural disaster, cyber attack, or human error resulting in data loss or downtime.
BENEFITS OF DISASTER RECOVERY
Ensure business continuity and operational resilience in the face of a disaster, reduce the risk of downtime, ensure compliance with data protection legislation and industry regulations, and minimize the impact of a disaster on operations, staff, and customers.
The Importance of Backup and Disaster Recovery Services
The Consequences
Data loss can have serious consequences for businesses, including loss of revenue, customers, and even reputation. With a backup and disaster recovery plan, organizations can minimize these risks and protect their critical data.
Data Loss Statistics
Recent studies show that without backup and recovery planning, 60% of businesses that experience a devastating data loss incident are at greater risk of failure within six months of the event.
Impact of Data Loss
Data loss can cause significant business disruption, loss of productivity, loss of customers, reduce brand integrity/trust, and financial impact.
Implementation Returns
A solid backup and disaster recovery plan can help reduce downtime, minimize data loss, and increase overall business resilience.
WHEN SHOULD YOU USE Backup and Disaster Recovery Services?
DISASTER RECOVERY SERVICES
- For Business Critical Systems and Data: Implementing a disaster recovery strategy is essential if your business depends on business-critical systems or data.
- For a Sustainable Future: Disaster Recovery planning is a critical aspect of any successful business to ensure the continuity of your operations.
- For Peace of Mind: Knowing that you have a disaster recovery plan in place will give you peace of mind that your business will be up and running in no time in case of an unfortunate event.
BACKUP SOLUTIONS
Backup Services are an essential service for any business, providing additional protection against the following:
Data loss
Accidental deletions
Hardware failure
Or other unforeseeable circumstances
Organizations should use backup services as a routine measure.
Keep Your Data Safe with Continuous Data Protection
Turn to Colohouse for the utmost in safety and data protection. As a licensed partner of R1Soft, the industry’s leading experts in data protection technology, your data is in the right hands 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
The Colohouse Internet Backup service employs the R1Soft cutting-edge CDP (continuous data protection®) technology for point-in-time backup snapshots of your data. There is continuous incremental backup of your data for mission-critical applications. Increments can be set in 5-10 minute intervals for greatest control.
- Web Interface
- Email Reporting
- Linux & Windows Supported
- Granular File Includes/Excludes
- Bare Metal Recovery (BMR)
- Restore To Alternate Locations
- Seamless cPanel Integration
The Advantages of R1Soft Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
CDP protects disk volume data using replication and synchronization over the network storing point-in-time snap shots in disk-based storage. The technology works by reading hard disk volumes at the sector level, bypassing the file system for the ultimate in performance and recovery. This disk sector synchronization is performed while the server is online and provides no interruption to other I/O requests even on a busy server. By reading the disk at the lowest possible level, point-in-time recovery images contain your files and all the formatting, partition tables, and volume configuration needed for complete and instant disaster recovery.
Recommendation
Ultimately, having both Backup and Disaster Recovery strategies in place is the best solution to guarantee your business continuity and your customers’ data security. Invest in a reliable IT service provider to secure your data for years to come. Connect with our Colohouse backup and disaster recovery specialists to learn how we can help you build a comprehensive strategy to keep your critical data secure.
