Download Quorum’s ABT Report: www.quorum.net/abtr <br /><br />Statistics show that most small to mid-sized businesses will experience a system downtime at least once a year. One hour of downtime costs a mid-sized business $74000 on an average1 and it takes 30 hours on average for data disaster recovery2. <br />Yet, most organizations believe that Disaster Recovery (DR) Testing is more trouble than it’s worth. <br />The primary reason is that most small to mid-sized businesses have never run their Disaster Recovery system through regular real world tests. As a result, it is never certain whether their data, servers and applications will recover using an existing solution. <br />The report also points out that testing quarterly or even monthly is not enough. And tape, disk or cloud backup alone is not foolproof. <br /><br />Quorum’s report makes a strong case for “Always Be Testing” on a daily basis. <br />It categorically states that, contrary to popular belief, if a business chooses its Disaster Recovery Solution correctly, even daily real-world tests are not time-consuming, costly, complex or a drain on resources. <br />The report points out that hardware, software and systems are constantly changing for any business. The organization’s data backup/data recovery must take all changes into account and the recovery solution has to be updated to-the-minute. Shortcuts, or traditional testing methods, don’t work. <br />Without Disaster Recovery Testing, a system is vulnerable and likely to be hit by backup corruption [especially for tape-based backups], backups executed incorrectly and human errors. <br />Only a systematic daily Disaster Recovery Testing covers everything. <br /><br />In short, the Quorum report emphasizes that a business must be able to test every day. So it must have the correct Disaster Recovery Solution, with one click recovery and daily testing. <br /><br />Quorum solutions provide assured, one click backup, recovery and continuity through simple and cost-effective solutions that safeguard a company’s revenue, customers and reputation. These solutions reduce downtime to mere minutes with a single click.
