Importance of Data – Intellectual Property for your organization
In most organizations
data is one of the most important assets. Losing data would cause severe damage.
Reinstalling the business application and operating system is easy but it is
unmanageable to recreate original data. Loss of critical data will impact in
many ways like business loss, decreasing productivity, legal action, and the
cost of re-creating data. The worst outcome of data loss can be a business
collapse.
Department |
Time to re-create data |
Approximate cost |
Sales and marketing |
19 days |
INR 30,000.00 |
Accounting |
21 days |
INR 25,000.00 |
Engineering |
41 days |
INR 98,000.00 |
In a recent study done by a company providing data recovery
services it estimated the cost of re-creating just 20 MB of data as the following:
Data Under Threat
Computer data is
always at risk of threat or damage. Even with the most consistent equipment and
the most secure environment something might go wrong. Any event like crash of
operating system or hardware failure can corrupt data or wipe it out completely.
Machines can be lost, stolen, or destroyed in a fire or other natural calamities.
Most of the data loss can be classified under,
- 1
Computer crashes
Computer crashes contributes maximum to data
loss. Since there is minimum possibility of recovery of data.
- 2
Virus Infection
No network is 100% safe. Despite an
Anti-Virus or Firewall in place, malicious contents can destroy data.
- 3
Hard drive failure
Hard drives can fail suddenly without
warning. The sudden loss of data can be a nightmare if it happens close to a
project deadline.
- 4
Physical computer damage
Laptops are less durable and data within is
at risk as laptops are easily damaged if dropped or the natural life wears out.
- 5
Theft
Data has become more mobile and thus risk of
theft is increasing day by day.
Data backup should be high priority as the amount of data stored is increasing, threats of data loss are higher with increasing government legislation.
What Should An Organization Look for?
Companies of all sizes try to proactively protect themselves from data loss particularly in today’s business environment which has high-end software, low- cost & high-performance storage devices. Organizations are looking for On-Premise backup solutions like:
Immediate backup - Fast backup with a minimum time window
Simple User Interface – Simple dashboards and less maintenance hassles. Simple licensing policy.
Flexible – A solution with enough capacity and enough performance to cover all virtual
and physical machines with fast, efficient, and versatile backup &
recovery.
Work can
be redone, but the loss of important files like product manuals or business
application data is permanent. IOTAP helps customers avert such disasters by
providing server and endpoint backup solutions. In case, data is lost you can
always retrieve it from the backup.
Server & Endpoint Backup
Server back-up is a vital task which should be performed on a regular basis and a automated backup solution makes it extremely easy to manage and eradicated any chance of human error. Server data includes business applications, user data and other databases. It is important to have an automated backup solution in place. IOTAP ensures customers have maximum up-time on servers which directly result in better productivity of an organization.
Mobility now has empowered employees to create and store data on desktops and laptops. Business owners often risk company’s data that is on laptops and
desktops. An increasingly mobile workforce means more employee’s working away
from the protection of the corporate network. IOTAP provides a secure, offsite,
and a completely automated solution a backup of all servers, physical or
virtual and Endpoints.
IOTAP in India delivers an effective backup strategy which is essential for businesses to be
safe from the effects of sudden data loss. The broad range of solutions from
IOTAP provides a complete suite to meet the needs of everything from a small
business to a large enterprise. With careful consideration and planning, IOTAP
helps you create an On-Premise backup schedule that provides full protection of
your data with minimum disruption to your business.
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