Server Disaster Recovery: Ensuring Continuity and Minimizing Risk

Jun 10
11:17

2011

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann

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It is pretty easy to lose yourself in the glitz and glamour of fancy features that are loaded in software programs and utilities today, and this includes with programs designed to help you with your server disaster recovery processes.

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Many IT professionals over the years have been known to get lured into the pull of fancy features,Server Disaster Recovery: Ensuring Continuity and Minimizing Risk Articles and the result is that they have overpaid for a program that is loaded with features that don't really have any significant benefit to the functions and processes they need the program for.

When you are looking at a server disaster recovery program, you want to find a program that will help you ensure maximum continuity while minimizing risk due to downtime and data loss. Any features in a solution that go above and beyond this may have tangible benefits to you, but you will want to make an effort to review those features carefully. Many times, programs are loaded with extra features for the sake of charging you a higher premium without adding significant benefit to you, so you will want to be on the lookout for this.

So you may be wondering which features in a server disaster recovery program can help you to minimize risk and ensure maximum continuity for your systems. You will want to look for features that add to your ability to perform more complete backups in less time, and this includes the ability to scheduled automated events that save to a remote or virtual location. You will also want features that allow you to perform a restore or recovery function in a very quick way, and this includes both a full restore and a granular recovery of even a single file or folder.

When it comes to your job functions, ensuring continuity while minimizing risk caused by data loss and downtime are critical, and you absolutely need to make sure that you are using the best tools available for the job. Yet you don't want to overpay for fancy features that don't add any benefit to these functions. Take time today to look into the server disaster recovery solution you are currently using and see if upgrading to a different solution would benefit you in a realistic way. With new and improved solutions making their way to the market regularly, upgrading to a new and improved system likely will provide you with some significant benefits that add to your ability to perform your job functions.