Vital for corporate leaders to ensure data integrity with backup

AS LEADERS of a company, executives are responsible for driving the team and ensuring the success of the business. While they often focus on product and sales strategies, it is important for them not to overlook the value of the business data and the need to protect it. Suffering a data loss will impact a company's top line if sales cannot be made due to the loss of customer contact or key product development information.

Data loss will also negatively impact the bottom line if the company can't invoice customers or produce records for tax purposes, is subjected to fines for non-compliance, or incurs higher costs to recreate data.

Because business continuity is dependent on the availability of a company's data, backup and disaster recovery need to be part of the company's strategic planning. IT teams carefully plan, design and implement business systems and networks, but often reduce the priority of "backup".