Losing business-critical data can seriously diminish customer experience, daily operations, employee productivity, and revenue. Part 2 will discuss six more reasons why data backup is very important.

5) Archival History

Representing a portion of a company’s history, data backups allow the creation of archives as time passes. Some business sectors are required by law to retain records over many years. This is typically a requirement for the finance, government, healthcare, and legal fields.

6) Rapid Recovery

People frequently make mistakes, although seldom deliberately. Emails containing viruses are opened or malicious links are clicked. There are many ways to infect a network, but with up-to-date backups, your business can rest assured that all is not lost. A simple restore from a backup snapshot taken before the malicious event occurred can revert a major incident.

7) Prevent Repeated Work

Losing access to business data costs four out of 10 companies in loss productivity and revenue. A data backup and disaster recovery plan will help your organization to prevent the expenses stemming from the repetition of effort. By being able to rapidly recover information, your company will not have to duplicate work that was previously performed.

8) Audits

A company’s data backup is often legally required by governmental bodies. Authorities overseeing regulations and taxes occasionally perform audits for a variety of reasons. Performing data backups help ensure accounting, financial, and regulatory records will be available for an audit.

9) Annual Reports

Intelligent business decisions are often determined by studying data and developing strategic insights. The storage of business data through backups can help provide guidance for developing successful approaches and innovations.

10) Confidence

The last and most simple reason for backing up business data is confidence. Knowing your company will be able to withstand the consequences of a data disaster and maintain business continuity will let you sleep at night, unworried about losing its most precious asset.

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