No matter how big the organisation is,
the fact is that organisations today are data driven with
integrated IT Systems at the core of their business processes.
Today increasingly organisations are dependent on their
data for carrying out day to day operations. Whether it’s
online trading, insurance-document imaging, Case management
software, financial databases, web sites, or other computing
systems, the fortunes of business are inextricably linked
to the continuous availability of these services and data.
Factors causing network
disruption or downtime?
Major Virus attacks
Power outages
Natural disasters
Equipment failures
Network Interruptions
Human error
Employee sabotage
Fraud and hacking
It would be human nature to assign
a very low probability to their occurrence in your business.
But that simply isn’t the case: virtually every company
will inevitably face some or the other form of network disruption.
A KPMG study conducted in the millennium showed the shifting
nature of these interruptions with natural disasters comprising
a shrinking portion of the total causes of IT interruptions
and manmade disasters — human- and IT-related failures
— representing an increasing share.
Increasing factors
affecting Data Management
The
exponential growth of business information generated
every day means even more and more data has to be
backed up
Customers
expect services to resume rapidly after a business
disruption - regardless of the circumstances
The
increasing need to access data almost around the clock
has dramatically shrunk the time permitted to backup
data.
Today’s data protection challenge
poses substantial risks to companies of all sizes, but they
pose the greatest risk to small and midsize businesses.
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
