ZetaOne’s 7 Golden Rules of Data Protection - RULE #4

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Single Location Data Storage - In the coming weeks, we’ll talk about the importance of having your data in different places, but this week, we’re going to talk about the importance of having your data in one place. Don’t worry, it’ll make sense when we get to those. Rule #4 boils down to having a server where everyone stores their data files. 16% of all hard drives suffer from some sort of data loss every year … that’s about 1 out of every 6 hard drives. Therefore, if you have important data on every computer in your business, your chances of loosing data on one of them goes up dramatically. In fact, if you have 6 or 7 computers in your business, statistically, you will loose data on one of them every year!

So how do we protect against this? We put the data in one place that can be backed up in multiple ways. So when (notice I didn’t say ‘if’) a drive on your server fails, you are completely protected. You could put the same protections into each of your computers, but the cost would exceed the cost of a server. Plus, the server brings with it lots of other advantages. Bottom line, have a server and save all of your data on the server. Hang in there, RULE #5, #6, and #7 are coming soon … total data protection is nearly in your grasp.

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Posted by Aaron T Garn On 07/22/2009 | Permalink |