Disaster Recovery Services – Data Protection Challenges
Data is as vital to an organisation as is its human resource. With data growing exponentially and distributed across servers, desktops and laptops located across geography and globalization adding to this unprecedented data growth, safeguarding this important component of business houses is of outmost concern for the IT people. The struggle is to make data easily accessible to the employees and partners while preventing data loss and maintaining business continuity. Data backup is one of the most common and best ways to protect yourself against loss of data. Backup is the process of duplicating and preserving files and databases for use in case of any accidental or intentional deletion.
Data loss may result from intentional actions or from unexpected reasons such as virus, application problems and human errors or OS failure and is often sharply felt in terms of cost and effort. A storage media is the first thing on the mind when we refer to data backup. But in case of any data loss the storage media should be one from where the data recovery becomes an easy process as it is also vital for the continuity of business. Hence data backup and recovery service is an important aspect of the disaster recovery, business process recovery and IT system strategies of any business organisation. data backup and recovery service is dependent on many factors such as the type of backup media deployed, online or offline backup, number of backups maintained and the location of backup media and its accessibility.
For today’s technology oriented businesses, continuity gets highly affected due to the smallest disruption in the IT machinery. Thus an effective disaster recovery service should be put in place while planning the IT business strategy. Research has shown that a well-developed disaster-recovery service forms the backbone for data backup and recovery service ensuring business continuity for the organization. A smart way to maintain data back up is by making use of the technology.
Data encryption is a part of the online data backup process. The all-important data is compressed, encrypted and stored in a secure remote location. The compression of data leads to less backup storage space and lower bandwidth for transfer. This online service with an automated and pre-defined backup frequency and retention period makes use of a de-duplication technology, which only adds on the changed data. With a secure Internet connection, even the small and medium enterprises can also use the cloud security solutions as a data backup and recovery service.
There are many managed service providers , providing cloud based disaster recovery service having dedicated servers in India. The services provided by them are cost effective; eliminate the need for physical maintenance and recovery in case of disaster. It also eliminate the need for multiple backup processes for different locations by providing single data storage across geographical boundaries. Automated data backup system eliminates errors, data loss besides saving on the effort, time and manpower involved in recovery and rebuilding of data in case of any disasters. Besides providing access to data from any location, it also facilitates the workers to collaborate projects and documents in real-time mode.
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