| Your
computer data is a valuable asset that requires special measures to protect. |
| Your insurance policy can
protect you from liability and property loss but often will not cover
you’re the loss of your data. While
business interruption insurance may provide some amount of money to
rebuild and replace your data, it will not tell you how;
and it will not do the work. Most
importantly of all, it will not ensure that you have all the
information required to reconstruct your critical database and
programs. Computer data
is compiled keystroke by keystroke over hundreds, or even thousands,
of man-hours ...and it can disappear in a heartbeat.
The standard business practice is to systematically make back
up copies of your data at regular, frequent intervals and move a
backup copy to a safe, secure off-site location. |
| Amazingly,
many companies fail to follow this simple but effective procedure. |
| If you lose your data or
programs, the only way you will be able to get back into business
quickly and cost effectively will be to retrieve a copy of your most
recent system backup and restore the data.
If you have no backup copy, you will have no data to restore
and…you may quickly be out of business. |
| Manual data
reconstruction does not offer good prospects for survival. |
| The International Data
Security Association has estimated the approximate time and cost to
reconstruct just 20 megabytes of lost data for average businesses in a
variety of different fields: |
| Sales
and Marketing |
|
 |
|
19 days and
$17,000 |
| Accounting |
|
|
|
21 days and
$19,000 |
| Engineering |
|
|
|
42 days and
$98,000 |
|
| Think of DATASAFE as your
best approach to data and business information insurance. |
| It is not enough to
systematically create backups without an equally systematic approach
to moving the tapes off-site. Relying
on your employees to take them home or to a bank safety deposit box is
highly unreliable. Use of
a third party professional service like DATASAFE provides a form of
discipline because our courier will appear at your door like clockwork
with the expectation that a current backup is ready to be picked up
and stored off-site. Should
the need arise, your data is accessible 24 hours per day, 7 days per
week, every week...even on holidays. |
| It is not enough to THINK your data is safe; you need to KNOW your data is safe. |
