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Businesses need to be more confident
about their disaster recovery strategies
OGY
Rising numbers of high profile security breaches in the UK mean that disaster
recovery plans are now as important as ever. With the appropriate
infrastructure, technologies and rigorous management policies in place,
TECHNOL businesses can be confident of protecting themselves, their staff and their
customers from the negative impact of a disaster. Steve Mackey, Quantum’s
Northern European area sales director, explains how.
DR
Quantum recently surveyed loss, as well as dents in strategies and solutions can
organisations from financial customer and investor be put in place.
services, public sector, retail confidence. There is no ‘one-size-fits-all’
and media and the results solution and individual data
show that IT managers have a Businesses must now backup management needs should
worrying lack of confidence in vast quantities of data both always be taken into account.
the effectiveness of their on and off-site, and in the Quantum’s recent survey
organisation’s disaster event of disaster it is vital to confirmed that many
recovery plans. have the right infrastructure in organisations are using tape
place to ensure data is or disk in isolation, with 38
Around 60 per cent of immediately accessible. per cent of UK businesses
companies are either not preferring tape and a small
entirely confident, or not Compliance and legislation percentage using disk.
confident at all, that their issues also now require
disaster recovery strategy will businesses to retain data for More often than not, we find
fully protect them in the event longer. Such trends look set that this mixture of disk and
of a disaster. Planning for the to continue and data volumes tape is the appropriate choice
future, working with a vendor are only going to increase. for our customers, as it offers
to select the appropriate the best of both worlds in
architecture and implementing One size does not fit all disaster recovery: fast
security measures are To build confidence in retrieval from disk for recently
examples of some of the disaster recovery plans it is archived or frequently
elements to be considered in important to find a solution accessed data and cost-
effective disaster recovery. that fits the organisation. effective, slower access
Data volumes, levels of storage for long-term archive.
Businesses are now access, retention periods and
dependent on large volumes data security are all factors Tape still remains an ideal
of accessible data for their that differ among choice for backup and archive
day-to-day activities. A robust organisations. data, and in today’s current
and reliable disaster recovery economic climate it is an
plan is therefore of vital Quantum takes a consultative attractive option to any
importance. approach to selecting the business’ disaster recovery
right disaster recovery architecture. It has very few
The careless handling of infrastructure and tailoring to running costs and if data is
valuable customer data could each and every business. By not being accessed, has no
mean massive financial considering present and moving parts and consumes
penalties and reputational future needs, cost effective virtually no electricity.
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