Have you ever played the “What If” game? What if your house caught fire? What would be the first nonliving thing you would grab? Majority of people will say their pictures. Pictures capture a moment in time that you will never get back. They capture emotions and tell stories of our lives that may not be remembered until you see the picture.

Now, let’s play the “What if” game for your business. What is your most prized possession in your office? Is it the building? Nope, you have insurance. Your equipment? Nope, it’s insured too. Your employees? Nope, it is the middle of the night and everyone is at home sleeping. Is it your data? Probably so, because if you are like most, you don’t have data insurance. You have never heard of data insurance? Data insurance is your Disaster Recovery.

So, what type of backup recovery are you using? A cd and hoping it didn’t get scratched up in the fire, or the office manager’s purse, if it made it out of the office. A hard drive hoping it very carefully made it out of the office and back in working order. A tape backup, hoping that the last weeks worth of data is recoverable. (Tapes fail up to 70% of the time). Another question is, how long before you can actually get your business back on track? Minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or sometimes longer. How quickly can you replace the server? What about all the software programs?

If you are second guessing your disaster preparedness, check out http://optix.onlinebackupsolution.com or http://optixdatavault.com.

Statistics show that after a “major loss” of computer records, 43% of businesses never reopened, 51% closed within two years, and a mere 6% survived long term.

You are probably still thinking this is all a “what if” situation, but it WILL be a reality before you know it. And it probably won’t be a fire. It will most likely be a human error. I am not comfortable playing the “what if” game. I am not the owner of this company, but I know that if we lost our computers and servers, I would still have a job to come to, because our data is safe.