Don’t Forget Your Backup Tapes
A staggering 33% of small- to medium-sized enterprises in the UK leave their backup tapes in the office at the end of the day, negating the benefit of backing up their servers, according to a new research report published today by Connect.
Two thirds of businesses (69%) had never tested whether they could retrieve all the information held on their backups. You naughty, naughty people …
The survey was conducted thanks to interviews with IT Managers and Directors at 151 UK companies in a range of industry sectors.
Tell me this. What kind on an idiot would store their backup tapes in their own offices? If there’s a fire, a flood or a burglary, they risk losing both the original data and the backups. Equally surprising is why so many organisations are using backup tapes at all. There are plenty of better and more up-to-date methods that can be used to protect their business critical data and at a similar cost. Stop me now, I could be here all day …
