Digital transformation means that organisations no longer need to rely on tape and tape systems. Organisations are adopting cloud storage management strategies. Many organisations assume that because their data is in the cloud, it’s protected and backed up. This is not always the case.
Issues such as human error and cyber threats mean that you need to consider your data protection strategy. Regulations and industry compliance are also considerations.
Put simply, it’s the old adage of expectations vs reality. When do you expect data to be available? When is it really available?
Every organisation is different, and operating hours need to be part of your consideration when looking at your backup schedule. Data snapshots between business hours of 9am-5pm won’t cut it for most organisations with the increased glide times as remote working is here to stay.
As it happens, quite a lot. The integration of AI into backup and recovery processes is transforming data protection. It’s not only enhancing current methodologies but redefining what’s possible through intelligent automated backup processes, predictive analytics to anticipate failure points and threats, AI threat detection and real-time monitoring, enhanced data restoration, data validation, and more.
There are different types of business-critical data across organisations.
Business running legacy systems are disproportionately impacted by data availability challenges. This can be due to a number of factors such as lack of core functionality, lack of capability and reluctance to adopt a modern and comprehensive data protection strategy.
But do you know what the accessibility of your data or the recovery plan is?
There are multiple facets to your backup and disaster recovery strategy.
Backup-as-a-Service covers your data protection strategy and ensures that you’ve got full backups when you need them. You’ve got control over your data and can restore on-demand.
Our M365 Backup is an add-on to our standard BaaS that ensures that all your Microsoft365 data is backed up, outside of the M365 retention policy.
Our Disaster Recovery solution, which ensures you are covered in the event of total data loss or corruption. Our disaster recovery specialists work to get you back up and running.
Our Backup-as-a-Service delivers an all-inclusive backup and recovery service. With our highly skilled team of backup and recovery engineers, your data is in great hands. We take away the complexity and simplify your strategy meaning that you don’t need to manage multiple vendors, hardware and software solutions. Your team can focus on ensuring that your IT strategy delivers increased value to the business instead of managing tapes.
Data accessibility is key. Too often the accidental use of the ‘delete’ button can cause a ripple effect through organisations. Colin, Biggers & Paisley (CBP) have seen the benefits of using the Backup-as-a-Service.
In reviewing their business continuity plan, CBP recognised that their traditional tape backup system posed a significant risk to the organisation about the time it would take to recover their environment, with no guarantee that it could recover fully.
Such is the reliability of their backup and disaster recovery system that Colin, Biggers & Paisley proudly present the results of their twice-yearly data backup and DR audits to potential clients as a benefit of engagement with the practice.
The ASD Essential 8 from the Australian Cyber Security Centre lists daily backups as one of their key mitigation strategies. As part of the maturity model their recommendations include:
Our Backup-as-a-Service supports all these recommendations.
Different industry requirements may mean you need to have data backed up at secure offsite locations.
We understand that not being able to access your data when you expect it has consequences. For us, that’s underpinned by our financially penalising SLA’s.
This means that if we don’t deliver on protecting your data as we promised, we’ll pay you.
^Veeam data protection report 2021
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