When we perform risk analyses to determine how much money is justified in mitigating risks to the clients' technology assets, our clients often focus on the value of their equipment.
Truth is, the equipment can be replaced fairly easily by insurance. What the client often fails to consider is the value of their data and the impact of losing that data on the business.
Ask yourself: "How long would it take to replace our data if it were lost to a hacker, employee theft or loss, natural disaster, fire, flood, etc.?"
If you didn't have a proper Backup and Disaster Recovery Plan in place, it could take days, weeks, even months to re-create it. Some of it you might not ever be able to re-create.
Think about those large spreadsheets, complicated mail merges, emails to/from clients and prospects, CRM data detailing all of your contacts with clients and prospects, and accounting data.
Simply put, your data is your most valuable technology asset. Nothing else comes close.
Consider one of our clients, who recently experienced the corruption of a spreadsheet that contained information on all of its clients going back to 1998 -- a spreadsheet the client refers to frequently.
FlexITechs was able to restore the file from our online backups within 15 minutes of arriving on-site. Had we not been performing those backups, all of that sales data would have been lost and unrecoverable. The client said he could not have re-created it.
For more information on how FlexITechs can analyze the risks to your data, and steps to mitigate those risks, from simple backup plans to a full-blown Disaster Recovery Plan, contact Eric Magill at 302-537-4198 or 302-542-4421.