INFORMATION technology (IT) disruptions are inevitable. There’s no single operating system that promises 100-percent, crash-proof reliability. All businesses are bound at some point to experience data loss because of accidents, malware, cyberattacks and hardware failure, among others. The question your customers should be asking, especially if your business specializes in IT or anything related to it, is how prepared are you to get back on track. Would you be able to rebuild in a matter of hours, or would it take you days or, worse, weeks? Rebuilding starts with a good backup strategy. If you’re too slow to get back on track, you might lose a significant number of clients and, consequently, sales.
For businesses that recently automated all their data, it may seem like another tedious step to back up all your applications, processes and everything you’ve stored so far. However, having a backup strategy is part and parcel of automating your business’ data and operations. If you don’t back up, you would need to build it back up from scratch, and that would be a graver disaster.