World Backup Day takes place on March 31 each year and aims to raise awareness of the importance of conducting regular backups to protect digital data.
“With industry stats indicating the vast majority of companies will experience some sort of data loss each year, it’s critical to ensure your data is backed up and that your backups are fully recoverable,” says Chris Grossman, senior vice president of enterprise applications at Rand Worldwide. “In our own surveys, more than 80 percent of respondents told us that they have had to recover data from a backup — and of those, 37 percent experienced a recovery failure. This high failure rate is completely preventable. Like the World Backup Day community, we believe that a good backup plan is continuous, so our solutions focus on both data backup and recovery.”
Results from Rand Secure Data’s recent survey on backup show that organizations are beginning to take heed of the importance of data recovery. With this encouraging news, and in honor of World Backup Day, Rand Secure Data is highlighting the three essentials for implementing a successful data backup and recovery solution:
1. Security
An organization’s data is one of its most valuable assets. The security of data in a backup is just as critical as the security of data in a local environment. Consider a backup solution that is:
— NIST FIPS 140-2 certified and ensures data is protected in-flight and at
rest
— Compliant with regulatory requirements, such as the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
(SOX)
2. Recoverability
To increase the likelihood of recovering data after loss, a backup solution should proactively assess the consistency and accuracy of all data. Consider a solution that includes:
— Autonomic healing and proactive monitoring to heal any corrupted data
— Multiple types of data checks to safeguard the integrity of data
3. Mobility
Today’s mobile workforce is creating massive amounts of corporate data, but is this data being protected? Implementing a backup solution that can carry the organization’s data governance policies to all endpoint devices is critical. Consider a backup solution that can:
— Backup enterprise data residing outside internal networks in mobile
devices such as laptops, tablets, and smartphones
— Protect against enterprise data loss on damaged, lost or stolen mobile
devices
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