With cloud computing gaining more ground in the SMB market, the constant still remains that small to medium businesses face different challenges than large enterprises.  Per Gartner, “due to its size, small to medium size businesses have different IT requirements — and often faces different IT challenges — than do large enterprises.  IT resources (usually budget and staff) are often highly constrained.”  This is where Boutique Cloud Providers (BCPs), like Net3 Technology, can really step in and be a great ally to an SMB. 

Technology is not immune to false promises and there may be no better example than the faith companies put into their Disaster Recovery plans. The issue with this false promise begins in the very term, Disaster Recovery: not all disasters are equal and not everyone defines what recovery means the same way. It would be impossible to recount the number of times we have walked into a business that was confident in their untested, untried, and untrue plan to recover from a disaster. Many people also tend to think of disasters as Acts of God – floods, fires, earthquakes, or other weather related events – when a corrupted database or internal sabotage can be just as damaging as natural disasters, if not more so. For the purposes of this narrative, a disaster is anything that would cause complete interruption of business, and recovery will be defined as the ability to get your business back up and running.

First and foremost, when it comes to backups and disaster recovery– we always recommend the 3-2-1 rule.  Whatever may happen: ransomware, disaster, equipment craps out, etc. – a copy of company data should be off site.  This means either building or renting a duplicate datacenter at a different location, OR utilizing the cloud. 

One of the most important assets to your company is your intellectual property, your data.

Often, it is taken for granted until it is gone: A Ransomware Strike.
How did this happen? Often ransomware infects your computer when you open an attachment in a dubious email or click a suspicious link on the web. Other forms need no human interaction and simply probe vulnerabilities on your perimeter network until they find a way in.

A 4 Step Guide for your Disaster Recovery plan

True Disaster Recovery is taking data from one site to another where it will be safe and separate from the event you encounter. There are many factors that separate a great DR plan from good one such as infrastructure, cloud provider, replication technology, cost, etc.  Though every business prioritizes their plan differently, this checklist is essential to make sure your DR plan is the best it can be for business continuity: