Data protection questions to consider for data protection

Sure you backup your data. Everyone does.

However, to reliably understand and comprehensively minimize exposure of your business to the risk of data loss and subsequent, imminent business functions outage, please ask yourself these questions…

BACKUP POLICY

Do I have a well defined backup policy for my critical business data?

How frequently is my critical business data backed up?
How can I be sure that the backup schedules are religiously followed?
How recent and complete is my current backup?
Have I verified this backup policy?
Can I verify it without disrupting operations?

COST OF BACKUP POLICY
What is the REAL cost of implementing this backup policy?

What is the cost of backup hardware such as multiple-generations of tape drives and backup software?
What is the actual cost of multiple magnetic or optical media such as tapes, DVD’s, external disks, etc.?
What is the cost of personnel time to perform actual data backup… week after week, every week?
What is the cost of time spent and equipments required for verifying backup?
What is the cost of maintenance, cleaning and administration of magnetic media?

EFFECTIVENESS OF BACKUP POLICY

How effective is my backup policy?

How long would it take after a crash to restore fully operational environment?
How do I mitigate missing, corrupt or out of sequence media?
How many days, weeks or months of data would still be lost when the system crashes?
If there was a disaster today, would my entire critical data be restored, WITHOUT FAIL?

LOST BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

Would just a successful data backup and restore guarantee business uptime?

How much time would be lost to perform a successful data restore from backups?
How much would it cost in resources to be fully operational again?
How much business would I lose during operations downtime due to system crash?
For how long can my business afford to be without access to critical applications?
What would happen to my business if not operational within a “reasonable amount of time”?
What would be that “reasonable amount of time”? For me? For my customers?
What would be my customers’ reaction if their service levels agreements are defaulted upon?

COST OF LOST BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
Would my business be affected due to functional downtime?

What would be the cost of lost business?
What would be the financial penalties for defaulting on Service Level Agreements?
What would be my cost of lost revenue if my competition offers better performance?

Most businesses already possess existing manual processes & necessary infrastructure for backing up their critical data. However, to reliably learn if your company is indeed protected against the threat of existence due to data outage or data loss and impending operational breakdown and monitory penalties, take this test which we call

THE BRAMHAGYAAN TEST.

Reach your office early one day, plug out the server & the moment your employee burdened with additional responsibility of taking backups arrives, summon him straight to your cabin to declare that the server disks are burnt but you are happy that he diligently takes the backup every week.

If the nervous facial twitching of this gentleman does not give away, ask him when last he took the backup. If his answer doesn't stop your heart... call us. We shall ensure that you never have to depend upon manual processes.

Our own studies over years have revealed that the backup is at least a month old, if not 6 months, a year or 2 years ancient. Human beings everywhere are the same,

BACKUP IS THE LAST PRIORITY, ALWAYS... EVERYWHERE...

and that is why we have the

IT'S BLACKBOX.