At the heart of every business – no matter how small or large it may be – is it’s data. With a significant amount of information which is utilised, saved, and protected by companies (including servers, computers, network storage, and memory cards etc), data protection and backup has become an imperative aspect of business administration.
Every organisation has important and crucial data that is needed to run the daily business grind, data that reflects the businesses history, and data that will impact future course of action. Thus, it is an understatement to say that protecting the company’s data is an important aspect and investment to make. Every organisation needs a data back-up plan that will help ensure the security and protection of important information. Backing up company’s files can protect the organisation against unfortunate circumstances such as accidental loss of user data, database corruption, hardware failures, and even natural disasters. It is usually the job of a company admin to ensure backup checks are performed on a weekly basis, including taking off site backups.
Apart from these consequences, the company can also experience financial impact, low productivity, loss of business, legal action, and the cost of retrieving or re-creating data. A terrible data disaster can put your business into great risk. At the very worst, if the company loses critical data, it can even result to the collapse of the business.