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Why Are Backups Such A Big Deal?

The technological revolution has crept up on many. Computers started out as a bit of a novelty item in Adelaide offices about 15 to 20 years ago, as a luxury or curiosity.

These days have long past and you cannot talk about business intelligently these days without involving the topic of information technology, they are so intertwined. Still the days of computers being a curiosity are still in the minds of many South Australian business owners.

Put simply, without the information stored on your computers, without email for communication and without the internet for research you do not have a business, its that simple.

Yet to many they are a bugbear, a cost burden, a drain on cash flow "filing cabinets, fax machines and the smell of manila folders, they were the days..." We hear this on a regular basis and the less the person understands about technology, the more sure they are that computers in a business environment have had a negative impact.

This attitude in varying degrees carries over to the task of backing up. It stuns and amazes us the sheer number of business owners who place little or no importance on a backup system, no structure, no strategy, no procedures, just a roll of the dice.....

Insurance Companies Do Not Insure Lost Data

This is interesting, because you can not insure data, could this be the reason many businesses do not put any value on their backup system? Here is a quick way for you to work out how much your business data is worth:

• Count how many employees you have.
• work out the time they spend creating company data as a percentage.
• Work out the cost of all the hardware/software required to maintain your data.
• Work out the overheads required to keep all of this infrastructure running (electricity etc)
• Add the cost of this up over the year, and that is what your data is worth to you per annum.

If it comes across as if we are trying to frighten businesses into action, well, that's exactly what we are doing. I would not want to see someone who has put their heart and soul into building a business from scratch only to see them lose it over something as preventable as data loss.

With our Computer Services Agreement, daily onsite and remote offsite backups are included, you will no longer have to worry about whether the backups have worked as we actively monitor the backups each day. Test restores are completed on a regular weekly basis.