How Important is Your Data?

Increasingly companies are storing information in electronic format rather than on paper, whether it is on PC hard drives, servers or in e-mail inboxes or archives. Whilst this generally results in increased efficiency through cost, space and time savings, it also leaves organisations exposed should they lose this data.

Data can be lost through:

Disaster – including fire, theft & flood
Accidental deletion
Wilful deletion
Hardware failure (hardware will fail eventually!)

A number of potential solutions exist for backing up data. These include:

Floppy disc
CD / DVD
USB memory stick
Tape drive

Whilst the backup routines can be automated, it still requires human intervention to insert discs or tapes and research undertaken by British Telecom indicates that:

40% of data is not properly backed up each night
50% of employees backing up data do not configure the software correctly
Over 75% of tape restores fail first time