Back-up Management

What is to blame for data loss?

  • 78% hardware
  • 11% human error
  • 2% viruses
  • 7% software
  • 1% others
  • 1% natural disasters
Source: Ontrack: Upgrading Data Recovery Capability, Experian

Businesses are so reliant on their data that only the risk-takers do not make regular back-ups. However new stringent legislation in the UK now requires businesses to keep data available for the purpose of audit trails and data protection compliance.

"One false click and a deleted file can cost an IT person half a day's work to restore it"

Within an organisation there is often no idea of who should manage the data.

  • Which data should be prioritised?
  • How is a restore procedure executed?
  • Is there enough storage capacity for the growing amount of data?

Among smaller companies, data back-up is frequently neglected or left to inexperienced people. Although it is obvious to an IT-literate person that 10Gigabytes of data cannot be backed up in 10seconds, this is not apparent to an inexperienced person.

Ixis IT can offer on-site consultancy to establish solid back-up and recovery procedures. This can cover:

  • Audit of existing software and hardware in-place for data recovery. This includes:
    • Server RAID configuration
    • Tape, optical and harddisk device configuration
    • Back-up media
  • Back-up software report analysis training for key staff members
  • Data management, prioritising business critical data, encryption
  • Defining workable back-up plans based on available hardware, software and media
  • Implementation of an off-site back-up system

If your company is currently without a back-up system Ixis IT can specify, supply and configure a suitable data back-up solution to fit with the business sector, data capacity and budget. Contact us to discuss your requirements further.

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