Data Storage & Recovery

Data storage, backup and disaster recovery

Data and data storage is the core of your business. The consequences of total business data loss can at best be highly disruptive and at worst catastrophic. Many businesses who experience data loss, fail to open again within 13 months, never open again or can never fully recover from the data loss.

It is vitally important that your data is stored safely and efficiently, and that a backup is stored securely off-site, as fire, theft and natural disasters can quite easily cause total loss of all on-site data.

Immutable backups

Robust backups should be stored in an immutable vault. This means that once they have been made, or written, they cannot be changed or deleted. This means bad actors who get into your system cannot destroy your backups. The backups are so robust, that as your IT company, our permissions would not allow us to delete any files without deleting your entire account.

Regular testing

The backup should be tested regularly to ensure that data can be successfully restored from it. A corrupt backup can also result in total data loss.

Sometimes it can happen that data has not yet been backed up when disaster strikes. It is often possible to recover accidentally deleted data, or even to recover valuable data from a crashed hard disk.

Disaster Data Recovery: All is not lost!

What happens when things go wrong with your IT systems? In today’s increasingly technological environment, businesses rely more and more on IT and IT related services.

When any of your IT systems go wrong, the consequences to your business can be catastrophic!

You need help and you need it quickly. Having a professional IT organisation on hand to deal with any contingencies is vital to the continuity of your business.

Your business will often rely on the availability of your IT systems, so when the worst happens the effect on your business can be at best inconvenient or at worst catastrophic!

A disaster can be the result of something as simple as the deletion of a critical file or as serious as the building containing your business being destroyed in a fire. Many businesses never recover from the effects of a major disaster.

Disaster Recovery plan

Your organisation should have a documented Disaster Recovery plan. The faster you can restore your data, the faster your business will be back running. With a suitable strategy in place, you can successfully avoid too much loss to your business.

These Disaster Recovery preparations need to be designed and active BEFORE a disaster occurs.  An effective off-site business data backup strategy is the most important component of a Disaster Recovery plan. Preparations on how to make your business data available to you as quickly and effectively as possible after a disaster are almost as important.

Bean IT will advise and assist you in setting up an efficient and effective Disaster Recovery strategy to minimise the effects on your business of anything from the loss of a single critical file right up to total loss of all IT hardware systems.

Contact Bean IT today for advice on data storage and computer systems for your business in Birmingham, Tamworth, or the Midlands