The simplest data backup & recovery softwareFor laptops and desktops in your business
#4 Reduced Need for End User Support
With an endpoint data backup solution, data should be recoverable at all times and IT able to rebuild the data from recovery, rather than having to attempt a fix if a problem occurs.
In their latest report on endpoint user data backup (ID #: G00211731), Gartner highlights the issue of endpoint user data security as one of the major problems faced by IT today. Pair this with the latest Intel report showing that the average costs of a lost or stolen business laptop is $50 000, and enterprises have a pressing financial incentive to ensure that their endpoint user data is properly protected.
One of the key challenges identified by Gartner is that IT tends to look at user data protection in the traditional sense, meaning from the centre out, instead of from the edge, inward – with the main areas of risk and exposure residing on endpoint user devices such as laptops and desktops.
The value of a business laptop rests on the value of the enterprise data residing on that device. With users becoming increasingly mobile, corporate data loss grows exponentially each year and the data at the edge of the network has never been more exposed. Loss is also happening at a higher rate with business data intake doubling every 18 months.
Endpoint Data Continuity Requirement #2 & #3
Simplify Data Recovery
Finding a data backup solution that offers reliable & fast data recovery is an obvious enterprise necessity. When recovering user data, IT should simply be able to select what version of the user data is required for recovery. File versioning allows previous versions of files to be restored
A wizard-driven restore process with an intuitive user interface prevents extended user downtime and ensures data recovery is not a resource-intensive project.
What, in your opinion, constitutes a massive breach, or loss, of data?
Is it Sony’s recent faux pas where data theft affected over 77 million users, resulting in serious damage to the company’s reputation and possible future loss of revenue as Playstation users threaten to dump the gaming console in droves?
Is it the theft of South African journalist, Max du Preez’s, laptop containing a near-completed manuscript of a new book about Nelson Mandela, or perhaps you recently lost an important file – just one document but important enough to damage your reputation at work, forcing you to spend hours trying to recreate it and/or perhaps, even, costing you a lot more than you bargained for?
Fact of the matter is that EVERY data breach or loss is devastating in some shape of form.
• Fact is: IT has been looking at the problem of endpoint user data protection from the wrong side of the data backup and recovery universe.
In their latest report on endpoint user data backup (ID #: G00211731), Gartner highlights the issue of endpoint user data security as one of the major problems faced by IT today.
One of the key problems being that IT tends to look at user data protection in the traditional sense, meaning from the centre out, instead of from the edge, inward – with the main areas of risk and exposure residing on endpoint user devices such as laptops and desktops.
Issues with this mindset
Corporate data loss grows exponentially each year, which means that data at the edge of the network has never been more exposed. Loss is happening at a higher rate with data intake doubling every 18 months.
The fact of the matter is that today’s legacy (mostly server-focused) solutions struggle to provide an answer to the problem of endpoint data protection because vendors simply attempt to adapt antiquated technology, instead of building the correct solution from the ground up.
Staff members that are retrenched, fired or somehow disgruntled with the organization are proving to be more than a headache, as recently proven when Boxing South Africa officials alleged that the organization’s former CEO “wiped valuable information from their computers.”
Leading IT data backup & recovery solutions developer, Cibecs, says it’s that easy.
“CIbecs is quick and easy to install through its new Express Install feature,” says Cibecs Development and Technology Director, Neal Dewing. “Cibecs automatically installs all components required to get your backup server configured and ready it to begin protecting your user data.”
With auto detection of all configuration settings (such as detection of the Active Directory environment and settings), coupled with an easy to use Install Wizard to guide the setup process, as well as recommended policy and backup settings, getting started with Cibecs is now even easier than before.
Migrating data from old to new hardware, or changing over to a new software operating system while trying to make sure that all the correct data, from all the company’s users, make that journey successfully, is a bit of a nightmare.
Historically, if migration best practice methods aren’t followed, data migration projects have a tendency to fail, as a Bloor Research white paper suggests:
Approximately 60 percent of data migration projects have overruns on time and / or budget, which affect business continuity and disrupt operations. . . Some projects fail completely.”
The ultimate guide to enterprise Data Migration Projects best practice (PC refresh white paper)
Three aspects need careful consideration so that data migration best practices can be followed and you can simplify data migration in your business:
The arrival of Cloud computing has brought with it new opportunities, many of them offering cost-savings and convenience as an attractive benefit to businesses and enterprises – however, when it comes to the security of company data and the viability of moving user data into the cloud, Enterprise CIOs are not so enthusiastic.
An NTT Europe Online survey of 200 CIOs and CFOs of UK-based companies with 500 or more employees (and a turnover of £100m or more) revealed that:
67% of respondents were not planning to adopt cloud computing or were unsure of its adoption within the near future.
49% of CIOs and CFOs listed security fears as the primary barrier to adoption.
While the above statistics relate to cloud-based services as a whole, we can assume with great accuracy that the attitude towards cloud-based service solutions that target company data will be similar at the very least, if not substantially more suspect.
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