Monday, November 2, 2009

About Small Business Info: Back It Up

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  from Darrell Zahorsky
This weekend was time to move the clocks back but savvy business owners also use this as a reminder to back up all critical business data. Gartner Research estimates 40 percent of businesses that suffer an interruption of their operations will fail within five years. Losing critical computer data in today's Internet Age can wipe out any small business making data backup an essential operational task. This week you still have time to backup your systems.

 
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3 Steps to Successful Data Backup
Data protection is crucial for protecting your business's continuity. If your only data backup is on a computer, and the hard disk fails or is damaged by a power surge, your business data is gone. And having paper copies of business data isn't adequate data protection; what if your business premises burn to the ground or experience severe flooding? Once again the data you need to carry on your business could be irretrievably lost. For adequate data protection, you need to establish a data backup system that follows these three steps:

 
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Backing up Your Business Computer Records
This advice is from Kathy Hendershot-Hurd, owner of VirtualImpax, a web development and web marketing company. Here is what Kathy has to say about backing up your files:

 
Information Explosion Fuels Data Storage
One of the biggest outputs of the Internet age is millions of people and companies have become content producers. Data production continues to grow, making storage and management of information big business. Big business to corporate giants like IBM or Hewlett-Packard, but also for small entrepreneurial companies such as IPR International with their DataGuardian service.

 
 
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