When was the last time you reviewed your data storage protection and backup policies
- Are you still relying on an on-premise scale-up or scale-out solution?
- How often are you backing up your data?
Here are our top five reasons for reviewing your data protection.
1. Traditional Services Are Not Enough
Traditional image backup was acceptable, and appliance-based solutions provided additional comfort for client/server and early cloud infrastructure adoption. But in today’s cloud-first environment, you need a better solution that matches your requirements for data protection—cyber essentials, ISO27001, or another standard.
2. Cyber Threats Are Increasing
Cyber threats are increasing in level and complexity, approximately doubling yearly; therefore, the likelihood of succumbing to a cyber attack may not be totally preventable. In 2024, UK businesses suffered 7.78 million Cyber attacks. In the face of this risk, secure and recoverable data backups have become a critical requirement.
3. Improve Upkeep Efficiency
Incremental additions and developments to backup solutions have resulted in multiple backup products and instances needing to be checked, monitored, updated, patched, and remedies found for failed backups. Time is lost travelling around different sites to restore data and operations. It’s more efficient to do all this from one central location.
4. Increase Upload Speeds
Talking efficiency: older image-based backup systems move a lot of data from source to destination each time, and backing up in the cloud is prohibitive due to the cost and speed of bandwidth. However, in today’s cloud-first world, this is no longer a consideration, as the latest incremental backup products achieve dramatically smaller and faster backups, meaning they can happen far more often, as little as every 15 minutes. This approach reduces the likelihood of losing vast amounts of data during recovery.
5. Simplify and Standardise
Not every user account, device, virtual machine, application, or physical server needs the same level of data protection; each has its own service level needs for handling critical and sensitive data, producing individual backup frequencies, data encryption, retention and archiving, and disaster recovery. Simplifying and standardising operations using one product protects everyone and reduces the chances of human error through consistent task performance.
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