FEATURE
The importance of backups to prevent data loss
cannot be underestimated – and in a world where
there are serious penalties for the mismanagement of
data, it’s crucial that organisations have a robust data
loss prevention policy in place. Industry experts talk
us through the importance of backups to ensure the
resilience and security of data.
he volume of data is expanding – quickly – and it’s only
going to continue as Digital Transformation continues
to sweep across the region. As their most precious
commodity, it’s more important than ever that businesses and
organisations have a strategy in place for preventing data loss,
even if the worst does happen.
We spoke to industry experts from Veeam and Quest about some
best practice approaches to backup to ensure data loss prevention.
Mohamad Rizk, Manager System Engineers, Middle
East at Veeam
The concept of backups is controvertible for businesses with
a clear vision and strategy. Some executives will tell you that
having a plan B means that plan A will never work. There is one
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type of backup option which is almost universally agreed on as
being a necessity though.
When it comes to file storage and applications, backup and
replication is widely considered a given. In practice, however, the
importance of backing up is sometimes overlooked – an error
which no business should fall foul of.
Whether it’s due to outages caused by hardware failure,
cyberattack or user error, you always need a plan B when it comes
to business continuity and protecting the availability of data.
When disaster strikes, IT departments are under pressure to
minimise the impact on employees and customers as much as
possible and this is a continuous effort rather than a job which
can be done once in a while. World Backup Day, which took place
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