Data Management & Disaster Recovery

Every business has information. Information runs business, whether it is inventory, accounting, customer lists, schedules, pricing, communication data, or process controls, to name a few. This information is crucial to the daily operations and historical survival of every business.

Protecting and managing information is as important as the information itself. There are many layers and types of protection:

• Physical security
  • The data container (servers, disks, computers, tapes, paper files, etc.) must be protected from theft
  • Doors, locking systems, video camera and motion detector systems are standard measures
• Logical security
  • Routers, firewalls, anti-virus software, server configuration, password policies, etc. are also standard security measures
• Environmental
  • The data containers must be protected from fire, flood, lightning, and other natural elements
  • Internal environmental conditions, such as temperature, humidity, etc. also strongly affect data container and operating computer systems functionality
• Redundancy for equipment failure
  • Computer hard drives, power sources, network and Internet connections can all fail
  • Duplicate/redundant hard drives/storage containers, power supplies, network connections help protect the information
• Data backup
  • Tapes, NAS (Network Attached Storage Device), optical disks, removable HDDs, off-site or remote backup all provide different levels
• Disaster recovery
  • Just as important as protection, recovery strategies complete the picture
  • Equipment replacement, data recovery