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Business continuity in SMB: disaster recovery in the small-to-medium business space.

Publication: Computer Technology Review
Publication Date: 01-OCT-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Business continuity in SMB: disaster recovery in the small-to-medium business space.(Storage Networking)

Article Excerpt
Many small to medium businesses (SMB) operate under the data protection philosophy of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." But something will inevitably happen: a disaster wipes out the backup tapes, or a critical database is permanently corrupted, or months of backups are useless because there was never an actual backup--only an error that repeated every night but no one ever knew until it was too late. All too often, the consequences are disastrous for the business.

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It's not that SMB doesn't know they need reliable backups and data protection. The issue is that SMBs are not flush with IT headcount looking for things to do. Unlike the enterprise, where simplification can threaten IT specialists' jobs, mid-market IT people are so severely overworked that they'll look for any good excuse to take tasks off their plate. They may need enterprise-level data protection--reliable backup and archiving, snapshots, replication, and SANs--but products need to be cost-effective and simple to deploy and maintain. Storage vendors into this space cannot overstress the importance of simplification in this space.

What SMB Needs Now

The three main needs for SMB and data protection are to make sure the backups work and are reliably moved offsite, and that...

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