A disaster could strike at any time, causing you to lose all or most of the critical data needed to run business today. Ignoring that possibility or putting off action, is not the responsible way to protect your organization's vital assets.
If you don't back up your systems regularly, or keep copies of important documents, now is the time to change your organization's procedures. Having an up-to-date copy of your data and important paperwork, kept outside your office, could potentially save your organization from damage caused by a computer virus, power surge, fire, or other similar disaster.
Once you have made the commitment to establish a backup schedule, prioritize critical documents, and then treat that information as your organization's safety net, you have begun to remove risk from your business. What you do from there, determines your level of risk, and your ability to lower that risk.
Many organizations rely on employees to periodically take their back up data home to provide an off-site solution. Minimal security, insurance concerns, errors, employee fraud, and the risk of damaging the backup media make this approach very RISKY.
Using a bank's safety deposit box or an on-site safe to store back up media could result in the data not being available after normal business hours and these types of locations might not meet with the media manufacturer's recommendations for storage.
For your back up media, on-line back up services are relatively expensive, time consuming, plus there are security, recourse, and ownership issues to be aware of. Additionally you don't have the safety net of a clone tape available, should your provider go out of business or change hands because of a merger.
Please call NCDS today, and let us help you avert disaster.
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