{"id":21522,"date":"2016-03-31T16:07:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T16:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=248072"},"modified":"2016-03-31T16:07:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T16:07:01","slug":"data-data-data-the-importance-of-backing-up-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/data-data-data-the-importance-of-backing-up-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Data, data, data. The importance of backing up data"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cloud<\/a>More often than not when browsing the internet each morning you\u2019ll soon discover that in fact, this morning is \u201cTalk Like a Pirate Day\u201d, or \u201cHug a Vegetarian Day\u201d, or something equally humorous. Today is an awareness day which, conversely, holds some use to the world on the whole.<\/p>\n

World Backup Day encourages consumers to back up their family photos, home videos, documents and emails, on more than one device. The World Backup Day website<\/a> lists numerous ways in which a consumer\u2019s data or documents can be lost, however this day is also very applicable to the world of enterprise IT.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rapid increase in the amount of data that consumers and organisations store is one of the biggest challenges facing the backup industry,\u201d says Giri Fox, Director of Technical Services at Rackspace. \u201cOrganisations aren\u2019t always sure what data they should be keeping, so to make sure they don\u2019t discard any important data they sometimes end up keeping everything which adds to this swell of data.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor many companies, a simple backup tool is no longer enough to make sure all these company assets are safe and available, they need support in keeping up with the sheer scale of data and to fix problems when a valuable file or database goes missing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The volume of data being utilized (and in some cases not utilized) has grown astronomically, but to a certain degree, security and employee behaviour has not kept pace with this growth. Cyber criminals always seem to be one step ahead of ahead of enterprise when attempting to access data, but what is more worrying is the trend of employee indifference to IT security.<\/p>\n

A recent survey<\/a> highlighted employee negligence and indifference to IT policy is one of the most significant inhibitors to cloud security with only 35% of respondents highlighting that they use passwords in work.<\/p>\n

\"Giri<\/a><\/p>\n

Giri Fox, Director of Technical Services at Rackspace<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cOver recent years, organisations have become far more aware of the importance of backing up their data and we\u2019ve noticed the impact here at Rackspace, where currently we backup 120 PB per month globally,\u201d adds Fox. \u201cOne of the main challenges for us is that businesses don\u2019t just want to back-up more data than ever before, they want it to be done quicker than ever before.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, the process of doing so has become more complex than it used to be because companies are more conscious than ever of the compliance regulations they have to adhere to. Fortunately, with the development of deduplication techniques, we are now able to back-up unique sections of data rather than duplicating large pools continuously, which has sped-up the backing-up process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Outside of employee indifference to cloud security, changes to EU-US data protection policy have highlighted the significance of data-backup and prevention of data loss. An instance of data loss could be crippling for an organization, whether it is financial penalties or the loss of information which could prove to be invaluable in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cInitiatives like World Backup Day are a great way of highlighting the importance of backing up in an age where, as Ann Winbald<\/a> put it, \u2018data is the new oil\u2019,\u201d comments Fox.<\/p>\n

In a world where data can be seen as one of the most important commodities to any business, the value of securing, backing up and encrypting data cannot be underplayed. That said, the majority of the working world (outside of the IT department), do not appreciate the value of security, mostly not out of malice, more because they don\u2019t know any better.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the post-Edward Snowden era we\u2019re also seeing just how seriously companies are thinking about encryption. Many companies now want to make sure their backed up data is no longer just encrypted when it goes outside the four walls of a data centre, but inside it as well,\u201d says Fox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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