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Why do SMBs need a disaster recovery plan?

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Tue, Sep 20, 2022 @ 12:23 PM

Digital transformation and remote working arrangements pushed small and medium businesses (SMBs) to leverage the cloud to store their critical data and work processes. While the cloud opens up new opportunities for businesses to scale faster, it also presents a few challenges. One of these is data breach and loss.


According to this 2022 report, the Middle East ranked second on the list of data breach losses after the US, incurring losses of SR28 million from data breaches in 2022 alone.

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Topics: Disaster Recovery, disaster recovery uae, cloud dr uae, disaster recovery as a service uae, cloud draas, BIOSME Saudi Arabia, draas saudi arabia, disaster recovery saudi arabia, cloud dr saudi arabia

Pain-points that Disaster Recovery as a Service tackles

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Tue, Feb 25, 2020 @ 01:53 PM

What’s your plan for an IT Disaster?

Given most companies will experience at least some downtime each year and sooner or later experience a major outage…… it’s wise to have a plan in place. 

 

In this guide we discuss;

 

  • the types of downtime's companies experience,
  • how they happen,
  • the impact they can have, both to the business’s reputation as well as its bottom line
  • and how planning ahead of time can avoid the worst impacts.
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The guide also looks at a unique approach to disaster recovery, namely, disaster prevention which can reduce the chance of an IT disaster and how disaster prevention can be combined with disaster recovery as a service to ensure your businesses has a comprehensive plan for any major IT disaster that will be effective.

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Topics: Disaster Recovery, online disaster recovery uae, draas uae, disaster recovery uae, disaster recovery as a service uae, veeam draas uae, cloud draas, azure recovery, azure recovery services

A Short Guide to Ideal Disaster Recovery

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Sun, Feb 10, 2019 @ 12:09 PM

If you’re like over one third of businesses, you might not be fully aware of the impact of unplanned downtime. Here are some quick figures – nearly half of businesses experience over four hours of unplanned downtime every four months, and according to Aberdeen, just one hour of downtime can cost an average of $260,000 USD. In other words, a thriving business can expect to lose at least one million dollars a year, if not more, due to IT failures.

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Topics: Disaster Recovery, draas uae, disaster recovery as a service uae, veeam draas uae, cloud draas

Eight questions to ask for Effective Backup and Disaster Recovery

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Sun, Dec 03, 2017 @ 10:59 AM

Whether you’re looking for a new backup and disaster recovery service provider or you’ve had the same one for ages, there are several questions you should keep in mind to ensure you have the most effective backup and disaster recovery plan.

 

1. Are you backing up the right files?

Obviously, you need to be sure that your backup and disaster recovery plan covers the most important files for your business. But think beyond just work product and database files: what about system configurations, metadata, application licenses, hidden files and calendar events? Backups of these “edge cases” will be essential to restoring your system from scratch if and when the time comes.

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Topics: IT Back Up, Disaster Recovery, online disaster recovery uae, disaster recovery as a service uae

BIOS has been entrusted with the Disaster Recovery of Tristar, MENA’s leading logistic service provider

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Sun, Sep 17, 2017 @ 01:26 PM

Cloud computing has become widely adopted across a broad range of industries in the Middle East and North Africa. Both small companies and large enterprises have recognized the importance of adapting innovations into their daily business operations to secure a steady growth within a constantly evolving market.

The need of integrated services that handle the DRaaS, SaaS, and IaaS of a company has led many businesses towards considering a cloud-oriented approach that either uses a hybrid or a cloud-only system to guarantee the security and integrity of company data.

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Topics: Disaster Recovery, online disaster recovery uae, draas uae, disaster recovery as a service uae

Pain points of unconsolidated storage that EMC in Dubai & UAE solves

Posted by Dominic Docherty on Sun, Aug 26, 2012 @ 10:02 AM

In today’s technology driven environment, business agility has become intricately intertwined with IT’s ability to be agile.

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Topics: Storage Solutions, EMC, Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery, Computer & Data Backup in Dubai & UAE

Posted by Dominic Docherty on Sun, Aug 19, 2012 @ 10:25 AM

When it comes to choosing your new backup solution, the choice can be bewildering. Do you go old school, and choose to backup with tape? Or perhaps you should take advantage of the latest technology, and adopt cloud backup.

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Topics: IT Back Up, Disaster Recovery, VMware

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