Back up

While small businesses and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) may not have large-scale back up requirements, this doesn’t make backing up data from unforeseen IT disasters any less vital. More than two thirds of small businesses that suffer a major data loss go out of business within a year. It’s clear that every business should have continuity plans in place to recover from unexpected downtime and data loss. Yet because only the largest companies tend to have a dedicated IT department, many SMEs lack the time and resources to backup their data effectively, relying on scheduled back ups throughout the day. While scheduled back ups might mitigate a disastrous data loss, they will not protect any information created or changed since the latest backup. This can be particularly devastating for companies whose data changes frequently.