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Why data protection must be central to any business continuity plan

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The Internet may have brought a lot of freedoms and a new way of doing business, but it has also ushered in a lot of new challenges. Perhaps the biggest challenge is the expectation, or even requirement, that a business is available to customers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Lengthy downtime as a result of a disaster just is not feasible, which is why all companies need to implement a business continuity strategy to keep the organisation operating even under the most difficult of circumstances.

Central to this strategy should be a data protection strategy and backup regime. Everything that a business does is based on data and without this data a business will fail to keep operating. Protecting this data then, should be a primary concern even though it is also one of the most difficult jobs a company faces. If the increasing amounts of storage and smaller backup windows - due to the pressures of a business being available all of the time - were not enough, then there are additional pressures that have to be thought of, for example compliance with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II and HIIPPA.

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