Author Archives: Nicholas Mukhar

The #1 Threat to Business Continuity? Business Excuses.

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In previous blogs, I’ve detailed how businesses can calculate their return on investment (ROI) for a business continuity solution and explained why tape backup products don’t meet today’s business needs. In case you haven’t noticed, I think business continuity and data backup is extremely important for an SMB.

Still, some SMBs insist on running their businesses without having the proper business continuity solution in place. Everyone has their reasons (or excuses), but we’ll start with the most basic one of all: people don’t know exactly what a business continuity does, or how it differs from a data backup solution. Continue reading “The #1 Threat to Business Continuity? Business Excuses.” »

New Year’s Resolution: Put an End to Tape Backup

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Complete Backup and Disaster Recovery SolutionIt’s once again the time of year when most of us make a New Year’s resolution. Some make personal resolutions to lose weight, spend more time with friends, or hold back on making those really funny but really inappropriate comments in public.

But New Year’s resolutions can be professional ones too. If you’re a small or medium-sized business (SMB) owner, the beginning of 2012 is a great opportunity to commit yourself to better protecting your business. And in that spirit, we have a very appropriate New Year’s resolution suggestion for your company: NO MORE TAPE BACKUP. Continue reading “New Year’s Resolution: Put an End to Tape Backup” »

The Backup Bottom Line: What’s My ROI?

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We get it. You run a small business. You’re cash-strapped. Monthly profits have been unpredictable, margins are tight, and you need to make a killing in December to meet your 2011 revenue goal. And you’re using all of these reasons, plus others, to explain why you can’t afford a backup and disaster recovery (BDR) or business continuity solution, at least not right now.

The above reasons actually explain why now is the perfect time to invest in a BDR solution. If you think business is rough now, try meeting revenue goals after having a network failure without a BDR solution in place. And if that failure never happens, you’ll still eventually see a full return on investment (ROI) on that BDR solution. Here’s how. Continue reading “The Backup Bottom Line: What’s My ROI?” »

Who Pays More for Downtime – SMBs or Enterprise Companies?

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Disaster Recovery PlansEnterprise companies and SMBs have very similar requirements when it comes to business continuity. When servers and workstations are broken, damaged, or attacked, both enterprises and SMBs stand to lose time, money, and client trust if they do not have proper business continuity plans in place. Data backup alone is not enough to protect any SMB or enterprise that doesn’t also have a way to continue doing business while a network is down, or to bring data and network configurations back as they were before the outage. Continue reading “Who Pays More for Downtime – SMBs or Enterprise Companies?” »