Adrian Moir, Senior Consultant, Product Management, Quest, discusses the importance of enterprise data backup with instant recovery, as the threat of data loss increases.
While individual users may still need reminding to back up their files, we’re at a point in 2019 where most businesses have seen the impact of ransomware or data loss, often first hand, and understand the importance of backing up business critical data.
The real problem we see all too often though is that organisational backup strategies aren’t evolving quickly enough. Data volumes continue to grow exponentially and the past 12 months have seen previously-hyped technologies such as containers and IoT becoming more mainstream with widespread adoption.
With this new structure of an organisations computing assets and new types of data needing to be protected, it is no longer a case of just backing up everything in the same way. There is no ‘one size fits all’ when it comes to backup and businesses need to take a smarter approach.
Customers and employees continue to demand seamless access to data and internal stakeholders want the business to achieve this while being cost-conscious. Therefore, businesses need to take a long hard look at their current backup strategy and decide whether it can not only ensure the level of service internally and externally in the event of a disaster, but that it is as streamlined as possible and able to keep up with the scale of growing data volumes.
If businesses take one thing into consideration this World Backup Day, it should be a fundamental switch in thinking. Don’t view backup as an afterthought. Build comprehensive data protection into every new development in the business.
This concept of data protection by design is far more than simply a ‘nice to have’, it’s a ‘must have’ and a fundamental stipulation of the EU GDPR. The GDPR is also famously broad when it comes to the definition of a data breach, including any incident which affects the availability of personal data; incidents which can be mitigated by a robust backup and recovery strategy. With data holding so much value to businesses and individuals alike, the way it is handled can make or break an organisation in 2019.”
