The Benefits of Having a Backup Solution

At any moment, hardware or software failure, data corruption, malicious virus or malware attack, accidental deletion of data, and even a natural disaster can happen. Is your business ready to handle these situations? If not, a backup solution can be highly beneficial to save your hard work and data.

We can give you seven great reasons why having a backup solution is beneficial to you.

1) Protection.

With a backup solution, your chances of breach and exposer are reduced. Your critical information and is safeguarded so you can protect your business and your customer's trust.

2) Employee Productivity.

With your data backed up, your employees can return to their jobs quickly. Productivity will not be lost but improved. They will not have to worry about restoring data or getting the business back up to speed.

3) Controlling Cost.

Your employee's work laptops and phones cost more than just their face value. The most expensive part of your employee's laptops and phones are the data that is on them. The average cost of a lost business laptop is around $50,000 due to the information that may be on it.

4) Fast File Recovery.

Backup solutions allow you to locate your data quickly. With older methods, it can take weeks to months before you can get your data back.

5) File sharing on the go.

Sharing files and other important information between employees needs to happen for regular business functionality. Having a backup solution offers a secure method to share files without worrying about if they will lose them or not, whether they are onsite or remote.

6) Empower your employees.

Yes, the IT department is there to help in a moment of need. Empowering employees to restore files on their own can significantly reduce overhead. This allows IT to focus on more extreme tasks.

7) No performance impact.

An excellent backup solution does not affect the performance of your device. This allows for few disruptions in work tasks. Most of the time, users do not realize their files are being backed up while they work.

It is time to start thinking about backup solutions and how beneficial they are to your company. Contact us today to learn how we can help your business.

What are the Costs of Being Hard Down?

What are the costs of being hard down? Do you know? We are in touch with clients day-in and day-out and would say the vast majority do not know.

A failure of a critical application can lead to two distinct types of losses:

• Loss of the application service - the impact of downtime varies according to the application and the business;

• Loss of data - the potential loss of data due to a system outage can have significant legal and financial implications.

Take this into consideration:

• Research indicates that 60 percent of organizations don't have a fully documented disaster recovery plan, while 40 percent of those with a plan admit that it isn't very effective when a disaster does strike.

• According to Nationwide's Small Business Indicator about half (49 percent) of respondents said it would take their business at least three months to recover from a natural disaster.

• The average business suffers 14 hours of downtime per year, decreasing employee efficiency to 63 percent.

• Average resolution time per outage is over 3 hours.

• Due to the costs associated with efforts to get systems back and running, companies typically lose an average of 9 hours of IT staffing.

• More than half of companies feel outages can damage their reputation, and 18% feel outages are "extremely damaging" to their reputation.

• Failure to recover data can result in disastrous outcomes for companies without a disaster recovery plan.

Let's talk about your comprehensive disaster recovery plan. And if you don't have one, let's create one together. Give us a shout today.

Business Disaster Recovery Made Easy

What would you do if you arrived to work to find your business server gone?

Stolen. Burned in a fire. Whatever the cause, the way you configure your server is lost. Your user permissions and accounts are gone, too. So, while you might have a data backup, your total IT environment is down for weeks.

Indeed, it takes on average 12 working days to restore a server and 50 hours to reconfigure it. That's under the best circumstances. If your server is more than 3 years old and not in production anymore it will take longer.

In response to Disaster Preparedness Month, Caisson has partnered with Digital Seattle to help you prevent this crisis.

Our Business Disaster Recovery (BDR) service employs server virtualization, which is the act of taking an exact image of your IT environment, including your server and placing it on a computer in the Cloud.

Tested and supported by IT experts, the service includes 200Gb of managed local and off-site backup. You don’t have to buy extra hardware to deploy it. And the monthly cost for the service is just $300.

Also, the service is scalable, so you can add capacity for just 80 centers per Gig. Or, if you want to reduce cost, archive or delete old information to meet your needs.

We’re standing by to answer any questions you may have. Contact us now.