Data backup, while crucial to an organization’s continuity and sustainability, hasn’t had too many innovations over the past few years. Ever since businesses have started to do away with the resource intensive backups that required manual effort or antiquated methods (we’re looking at you, tape), backups and backup strategies have standardized a bit. In today’s blog, we’ll take you through that process and how emerging technologies are improving backup technology.
The BDR
For those businesses that rely on their BDR (Backup and Disaster Recovery platform), it might come as a surprise that nearly two out of five small and mid-size businesses (SMB) don’t have a backup at all. For all the effort that has gone into bringing awareness about the importance of data redundancy, there are still a large percentage of businesses out there that don’t have any type of data backup strategy in place.
The ones that do, typically use a BDR. This is a device that incrementally backs up changes to your data as they are made, while also pushing a copy of that data to an offsite location. This builds the redundancy that every organization needs. Not only do you have a copy of your data onsite and at the ready should you need to recover it quickly, you also gain the redundancy needed should something terrible happen to your place of business; you have data available to work from.
Innovations of Backup
There have been some exciting new technologies that can revolutionize the manner in which you backup your data over the past few years. Many of these technologies have been developed to improve the efficiency of recovery or to make the backup more reliable. Today, we will go through two of these technologies that will improve backup and recovery platforms in the near future.
Artificial Intelligence
AI can improve the performance and efficiency of any organization’s data backup platform by integrating a level of automation that was simply impossible before. In many cases, the AI systems work to take human error out of the equation making technology more reliable. This is a big deal in something as business critical as the safeguarding of data. AI can also help data backup integrate with a broader array of business IT, giving you more options in which to improve your organization’s redundancy.
Blockchain
Blockchain is mostly known for its role in cryptocurrency, but it can be one of the most useful technologies out there because of how it works. Blockchain is effectively an immutable ledger that is distributed over many systems to provide maximum reliability and secure an organization’s data. Blockchain data cannot be altered without a new node being created, making it the ultimate solution to secure business data. While it isn’t a real solution to back up your data, it is a great solution to ensure your backups are reliably stored.
If you are one of the organizations that haven’t backed up your data, the IT professionals at Trailblazers Tech Solutions can help. To get the IT advice and services you need to be successful, call our IT professionals today at (281) 916-1101.
