Protecting Important Data While Saving Operational Costs

All the activities in the company today, both conventional and automated, always produce important data. When there is a problem with the IT system that causes the data to be damaged or lost, this will certainly disrupt business operations. Protecting important data is important, but it is often our paradigm to understand that holding backups can not save on operational costs. Let’s straighten that understanding.

How Much Does It Cost From Unwanted Data?

This answer is relative. For data theft, these costs will relate to how much demand the company receives. As an example of a health insurance company abroad who received hundreds of billions of demands because customer data leaked through a USB.

For important data such as food recipes, food suppliers and so on restaurant businesses, can undermine restaurant revenues. Competitors who managed to get the stolen data will certainly make a similar menu.

For banking, leakage, loss and even data damage, in addition to problems with running systems and requiring downtime, it also has the potential to receive large demands. One hour of downtime for an enterprise scale will result in billions of rupiah losses.

Even for a website that only contains articles only, if exposed to hack and no data that can be backed up can cause losses tens of millions of dollars. This happens often.

This is how to save the company’s operational costs need to be reviewed. Data backup and critical apps for business are inevitable. Especially in today’s digital era, cyber attacks not only target enterprise-scale enterprise only.

Not to mention in terms of time and business reputation, of course this can not be separated in a way to save the right operational costs. Save on operational costs is not only measured from the value of money alone.

Data protection needs to be done with the best planning and strategy. Especially for medium and large companies, backup is quite complex. If not calculated carefully, it can lead to waste. This means, if you spend money for data protection, but when the incident you can not restore data above 90% or going downtime long enough. This will relate to the IT infrastructure in the backup storage environment you will be using.

For the aforementioned, the company needs a special person to ensure the infrastructure and data backup remains in the best condition. Not to mention for hardware investment, bandwidth costs per month, and so forth. This will involve considerable fees. However, in case of any breach or damage, your company is safe from a much larger fee.

How To Save This Operational Cost ?

As we described above, to be able to meet best practices in backup of data and IT elements for other critical missions, companies need:

  1. Hardware device
  2. Software or license
  3. Experts
  4. Staff for 24 hours monitoring
  5. Internet bandwidth

Hardware devices have a lifespan of 3 years. Software licenses averaged in a matter of years. Experts, staff and monthly bandwidth. The only way to save the company’s operational costs is to optimize those 5 factors. And the use of IT consulting services is not included here (if you need a second opinion).

The best practice in backup is that each company must have at least 2 data backups. The data will then be stored in a local on-premise environment of the company, and separately or in a separate place altogether.

Then, data backup technology requires behavior recognition pattern software. Because, in the face of malware, if still backup data contains infected files, it can be attacked ransomware or other malware in the future. Extortion or attack that only aims to destroy your data would be more worrying.

If the backup system does not have data behavior recognition pattern technology, when malware infects your network, then your company will need a longer recovery time. This will be related to RTO and RPO in case of downtime, and will certainly increase your company’s losses.

Optimization of experts and staff can be done by anyone. Consistency and discipline, however, are important factors in ensuring a recovery strategy works well in the event of a disruption. Your data needs to be dumped for 24 hours non-stop. Therefore, you will place monitoring and alarm systems for notification on your staff. What you have to anticipate is, What happens if your staff is being hospitalized?

Then internet bandwidth, it should be separate from general use. This is to ensure data security. So if you have to spend internet costs 10 GB / s per month just for the process of reserve is classified as active-passive ?.

Solutions For Your Company

The challenge to save the company’s operating costs can be overcome with the concept of spending as needed. This cost concept emerged in the current cloud era, which is often referred to as on demand or pay as you go.

You can use the Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) for backup needs. By using DRaaS, your company is free from having to invest in devices. Your IT staff can focus more on the company’s progress than just to make sure backups are always available or not. The use of Internet bandwidth can be customized also as needed.

Elitery presents a backup solution that has been using technology recognition pattern data recognition. Already used by dozens of member companies of Indonesia Stock Exchange. Elitery DRaaS is recommended by the Indonesian Stock Exchange. So it will recommend also for other stock exchange in South East Asia such Singapore Stock Exchange and Malaysia Stock Exchange.

Feel free contact our marketing team for further discussion at phone number: (+ 62–21) 750–2976.

Or you can contact us via oour website : https://elitery.com/contact-us/

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