A brief disruption could cost you thousands. A complete failure could cost you everything.
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Quick Tech Talk
With Steve Yoss
CPE Today
In the digital era, your data is your most valuable asset. Whether you’re serving clients, analyzing operations, or simply keeping your business afloat, uninterrupted access to accurate data is essential. But what happens when that access is suddenly taken away?
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“Data is the digital gold,” the episode explains. And without a resilient plan to protect it, you could face:
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Customer service breakdowns
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Lost revenue from downtime
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Regulatory violations
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Permanent data loss
Even brief outages can disrupt workflows and client service. But a complete loss or delayed recovery? That could be catastrophic. According to the National Archives & Records Administration, 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more filed for bankruptcy within one year of the outage.
This episode walks through best practices that every modern business should be implementing:
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Real-time or near-real-time backups to minimize loss;
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Geographic redundancy to protect against disasters;
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Multi-format storage options to ensure compatibility;
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Regular testing and validation to guarantee that recovery will work; and
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Customization to match your actual business operations and needs.
It’s not enough to back up data somewhere—you need to be sure you can actually restore it when it matters most.
“The best time to create a backup plan was yesterday,” Yoss says. “The next best time is today.”
You don’t need an enterprise-sized IT budget to put a strong backup plan in place. Affordable cloud-based solutions, open-source tools, and managed service providers can help small and mid-sized firms build redundancy and resilience—without breaking the bank.
Tech leaders like Gartner and IDC consistently rank backup and recovery as one of the top IT priorities for organizations of every size. If you’re not treating your data protection strategy with the same urgency as cybersecurity, you’re leaving a critical gap in your business defenses.