Disaster Recovery Tip #28

Reap the benefits.

We talk every week about the importance of creating a comprehensive and actionable recovery plan. It will come as no surprise, that most plans are built with the worst-case-scenario in mind. But the reality is that most business interruptions are not major “smoking hole” events. Employee illness, transit strikes, religious holidays or even scheduled events like the recent G20 in Toronto are just a few examples of the many things that can keep people out of work throughout the year.

A comprehensive recovery plan takes these “minor” interruptions into account. For example, if you have a large group of employees out of town for a tradeshow, who will function as their backup? What’s the impact on your customers? How will external audiences be notified? What’s the procedure for handling increased workload? Is your current process efficient? You back up your data every night, but have you made the same accommodations for your people?

A robust recovery plan will help you address these concerns throughout the year.

Symantec Reveals Small to Medium Business Data Protection Practices Not on Pace With Data Growth

Symantec Corp. has announced a new independent study finds that small and medium businesses (SMB) rate backup as their second-highest computing priority, after defense against viruses and other malware, and hahead of issues such as reducing costs and deploying new computers. Ninety-two percet of companies have deployed some form of data back up technology, yet 50 percent of those companies lost data, approximately a third have lost sales, 20 percent have lost customers and a quarter claim the data loss caused severe disruptions to the company.

For more information, visit https://www4.symantec.com/Vrt/offer or www.spn.com.

Sonasoft Announces New Version of its SonaSafe Solution

Sonasoft Corp. announces the availability of its new version of SonaSafe for SQL Servers. This release contains many advanced features including pre-defined templates for backup, new user interface, improved manageability, enhanced replication and recovery capability. Sonasoft provides a high-availability solution, protecting data from hardware/software failures and human errors. SonaSafe application maintains the redundant, standby server by continually updating the data with that retrieved from the primary system. The standby system can take over instantly in the event of primary system failures. The standby system can be on-site, or located at a remote site for protection against natural or man-made disasters.

For more information, visit www.sonasoft.com.