Traditional Backup or Intelligent Business Continuity?

Downtime is real, and it’s costly. Across all businesses, it’s a staggering $163,674 per hour, according to research by the Aberdeen Group. Of course, the exact cost depended on company size: small companies lose approximately $8,581 per hour; medium companies $215,638 per hour; and large enterprises a whopping $686,250 for every hour of downtime.
The numbers speak for themselves: you need to plan for downtime!

Data backup answers the questions: is my data safe? Can I get it back in case of a failure?
Business continuity, on the other hand, involves thinking about the business at a higher level, and asks: how quickly can I get my business operating again in case of system failure?

Here is a head-to-head comparison between Backup and Intelligent Business Continuity

Making sure your business can continue operating in case of a disaster is just as essential to SMBs as it is to the largest enterprises. For that reason, business continuity using data backup is an essential solution that SMBs should deploy.
Data backup solutions come in all different flavours. Cloud-based solutions are increasingly popular, but they provide only a partial answer. On-site solutions also have their weaknesses.
The answer is a hybrid cloud. It provides the best of all worlds: you can recover data swiftly from a local device for the most common causes of data loss, but you have all your data safely stored in the cloud for more extreme events in which the local device is destroyed or unavailable.

For more information or to get help planning a Business Continuity solution call 1300 303 388 or email info@cloudspecialists.net.au