What If You Lost All Your Data?

In today’s world your data is your life

Chances are every piece of data you might ever rely upon to make an important decision has been reduced to a digital format and resides somewhere on your computer or your company network.

One wrong click, one nasty virus, one untimely power surge or unhappy employee and that data is gone forever!

Data downtime and data loss can cost your company uncountable hours in lost productivity and revenue. In addition to the direct loss, business and potential to generate revenue can also be crippled by even the most minimal of data-destroying meltdowns.

Imagine the loss of productivity that would occur if your accounting department suffered the loss of all of their files – 20Mb of accounting data takes 21 days and costs at least $20,000 to reproduce.

Among companies who lose data in a disaster, 50% never re-open and 90% are out of business within two years!

“We backup every night”

That’s a great step, but now imagine this:

It’s the end of the month, and everyone is busy with normal procedure, when your system goes down. Your ICT department is on the case, they have a backup from last night. They need to fix or replace the part that failed, possibly reinstall whatever operating system is on the server, reinstall the in-house systems and finally replace the data from the backup.

This could take anything from hours to in worst case situations, months!

Is this acceptable to your business, and your end of month accounts?

HA Stands for High Availability, and it’s a little like insurance

The idea behind it is that your backup data is always up to date, and it’s quickly replaceable – usually within minutes. Costs vary between solutions, but it’s a must these days for anyone who relies on their data being safe.

Computer Merchants know a lot about HA – it’s a core part of our business because we know how important it is for you to keep your data safe. Call us on 1800 777 111.

See also: High Availability – *noMAX (sentry, defender, garrison), High Availability – Vision Solutions (EchoCluster, EchoStream)