Data loss is a nightmare
Your data is growing exponentially
If you find yourself now in a situation where you have to deal with an explosion in the volume of your business data, you are not alone. The accelerating pace of data creation, accumulation, and diffusion is becoming an increasingly common phenomenon among companies throughout the world today. Data is growing exponentially due to widespread use of the Internet, email, and media-rich software. As early as 2002, International Data Corporation (IDC) projected a dizzying annual data growth rate of 80%.
1MB of data can be Priceless
Viewed from a strategic perspective, your data represents the core of your business. You have invested a lot of TIME, MONEY and EFFORT in developing your business data. Contracts, sales records, proposals, accounting records, marketing material, business contacts, emails, and even digital photos taken in important events, etc., make up the bulk of your invaluable business assets, which you cannot afford to lose.
Data loss makes your business suffer
Your business' data go hand in hand with your business' operations. The loss of such data, or even their temporary inaccessibility, may threaten your hard-earned competitive position. Companies without proactive backup and recovery policies are likely to be OUT OF BUSINESS within 2 years of a major disaster. Loss of business data may ruin your company’s reputation, and may lead to expensive litigation. Worst of all, it interrupts your business continuity.
Conventional approaches to backup are not good enough
Poor “unstructured” conventional backup methodologies, such as tape, CD Rom, and external hard drive, etc., are not good enough because of:
- High failure rates during restoration
- Slow read / write speed
- Difficulty in detecting problems of backup before performing restoration
- High maintenance cost
- Expensive offsite storage of tape library
- Reduced flexibility for backup caused by fixed capacity per backup media
- Increased likelihood of occurrence of negligence-induced problems (e.g. lost or misplaced data)