Is your data safe from failure?
If you are starting out your new business or you haven’t yet planned to protect your critical business data from the most common type of hardware failure, we’re here to help. If your business data is sitting on just one hard drive, you will loose everything if that hard drive eventually fails due to age or mechanical failures. And fail, it will – it’s just a matter of time. We will assess your current hardware and advise you whether you will need to upgrade that hardware in order to allow the industry standard RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) configuration. If you do, we will setup RAID using the type and level of protection you need. Don’t worry – we will advise you of all the different types of RAID configurations and the level of protection they provide you ( how many disk failures your setup will tolerate etc.)
Do you have the most basic backup strategy in place?
Once your critical data is protected against the most basic type of hardware failure, the next step is to make sure that it is backed up properly. Why a backup of your critical data is important? Sometimes, even the most redundant data storage on your live production system is not immune from total loss or corruption. For example if you have a power “brown-out” in your office, the sudden voltage drop on your electrical system can cause damage to your PCs permanently corrupting all the data on your hard disks. In the worst case scenario this corrupted data may become unrecoverable and the only option you have left will be to restore it from a prior backup. Bad actors could also break into your system and lock your files out so as to extort money from you for their release. In these circumstances the only option you have left may be to recover the data from an existing backup. The type and quality of the restored data you need will depend on the criticality of your data and your budget.
We will walk you through the types and costs of each type of backup solutions, from the most basic to the most advanced, and allow you to pick the most suitable one for your business