The Silent Threat of Data Loss and Hardware Failure

The single greatest danger to your business isn’t a hacker on the other side of the world, and it’s not your employees taking an extra five minutes on their break. It’s that dusty old server taking up space in a closet, the one that you insist works just fine. Hardware failure and the data loss it leads to can often be enough to set your business back far enough that it can no longer compete, and that’s exactly what we’re here to prevent.

Let’s go over how your business can ensure hardware failure becomes a simple setback rather than a business-ending scenario.

Why Hardware Failure is Such a Devastating Disaster

Businesses run on hardware, and it’s easy to take it for granted while it’s working properly.

But that’s the thing about business technology, right? It never lasts forever, and it always picks the most inopportune time to crash and fail. If your servers fail, you could lose access to customer records, financial data, intellectual property, and so much more. In other words, you could lose what makes your business profitable in one single data loss incident.

This is why we recommend you take a proactive approach to managing your technology, and it all starts with managed IT services that make this proactive and preventative care possible.

How Managed IT Prevents Hardware Failure

Managed IT takes data backup and disaster recovery seriously, and so should your business.

When you work with a managed service provider like Suffolk Computer Consultants, we don’t just back up your files; we manage the recovery time objective (RTO) of your business. What this means is that we prioritize getting your business back up and running following a hardware failure, and it could be the difference between 30 minutes of downtime and 3 days of lost operations. Without this proactive management, a simple hard drive failure could cost you thousands in lost billable hours and missed opportunities.

If you can’t recover your data in a reasonable amount of time, you don’t have a backup. You have a liability.

Our Approach to Proactive Backup

At Suffolk Computer Consultants, we like to recommend the 3-2-1 backup rule for pretty much any and all businesses we work with.

It’s simple in how it works:

• A minimum of 3 backups total
• At least 2 of these backups should be on different storage media
• At least 1 copy of your data should be isolated and immutable in the cloud or an off-site data center

You can see how it works; you have different options and various failsafes on the off-chance you need to restore your data. You’ll be prepared for any situation out there, whether it’s a natural disaster, a cybersecurity attack, or, of course, an ill-timed hardware failure.

Suffolk Computer Consultants will make sure your business is safe from all types of disasters, hardware failure included. Learn more today by calling us at 631-905-9617.