The average yearly cost of downtime is $880,000 for mid-sized businesses.
Having a data disaster recovery strategy in place is
critical to ensure business continuity in the event of unexpected
disruptions. Implementing such a strategy can be delayed for two reasons:
one, it's complicated to evaluate business operations to find critical data that
needs to be made available immediately after a disaster, and two, many believe
that disaster recovery is just too expensive, particularly for small and
medium-size businesses.
Both of these issues create friction that slows down the adoption of disaster recovery strategies and technologies; but being able to recover quickly from a data disaster is more important than ever.
The three main options that a small or medium sized company has when building a disaster recovery strategy are:
- Physically moving tapes or drives offsite.
- Replicating data between offices or to an offsite data center/centre.
- DR-as-a-Service from the cloud.