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In truth most businesses that have any sort of size will want to have backup and also some kind of disaster recovery. But they don’t always. Often Disaster Recovery is perceived as too complicated or expensive. Perhaps this was the case several years ago but things have changed. When considering your companies backup and DR strategy consider some scenarios: 

Which is right for my company?

Its Sunday morning 9 am. You start work but you can’t connect to any of your servers. Your IT checks the server and sees a message ‘Your data has been encrypted. To receive the decryption key send 10 bitcoins to this address’.

Hopefully you’ll be able to restore from backup. This assumes it has been working properly. You’ll be down for a day or 2. The business will be ok but how much will that cost your business?

According to a research conducted by IDG, businesses are relying now more than even on cloud computing to achieve business growth. A report by Gartner states that by 2018, at least 30% of companies in the service sector will move their enterprise resource planning ( ERP ) applications to the cloud.

As the cloud service sector continues to mature, the one-fits-all approach no longer applies to the industry. Strategic IT advancements continue to have a profound impact on business development, yet, the pressing need of innovation changes the way tech-driven companies operate. The need of personalisation of cloud services has created a market where the cloud strategy and IT initiatives are aligned closely to the goals of the business.