There are about 140,000 hard drive crashes in the US weekly. Every five years, 20% of SMBs suffer data loss due to a significant disaster.

Simply backing up data isn't enough anymore. Instead, backing up has morphed into data protection. So what can companies do now to protect their valuable data?

WEBIT Services has helped hundreds of clients develop and execute effective IT strategies for over 25 years.

If your business is hit with an IT disaster, do you have the tools and planning to respond effectively? Or are you scrambling to find solutions?

If you want to survive a disaster, it's best to be prepared for anything, including an unplanned IT system shutdown (known as an "IT disaster"). IT disasters knock you offline, halting productivity and potentially erasing valuable data.

When IT systems fail, companies lose profits until systems come back online. If data backups aren't set up or fail, data vanishes, deleting hours, days, or even years of work and information.

So, what can organizations do to minimize downtime and protect data in a crisis?

Your company's internal IT department or external IT provider can help create an IT disaster and recovery system.

If you turn on your computer and all of your files are gone? What do you do? How does it affect your business?

If you are hit by ransomware, do you know how quickly you can be back online?

What do you need to return to productivity when vital IT applications or hardware go down?

These situations are examples of IT disasters, and they can halt productivity, damage your reputation, and accrue significant financial losses if they are not handled swiftly and effectively.

The cybercrime industry looms as a constant threat to businesses and individuals. Experts estimate that cybercrime costs will reach $10.5 trillion annually by 2025. Now, it's rarely a case of "if" you experience a cyberattack. Instead, it's a matter of "when.

When you say the phrase "IT disaster," often it's associated with a natural disaster or catastrophic damage to your office building. But IT disasters are more than facility damage. They can be anything—seemingly big or small—that affects your IT setup in a way that halts productivity.

Backup systems are essential to IT disaster recovery and minimizing IT downtime. But what affects the prices of the different services? Why does the cost vary between applications and services? What is the actual cost of backup services?

The answer is, "Well, it depends on what you want from your backups.

What would you do if you turned on your computer and suddenly everything was gone? Would you have the backups you need to restore your computer, or would all the data be lost forever?

IT backups are an essential part of IT disaster recovery planning.

What would you do if you turned on your computer and saw only a blank screen? No files or programs to open, just a blank slate. What data are you most worried about losing? Do you know how to get it back?

IT backups are an essential defense against IT disasters because they can restore crucial data and systems if hardware memory is compromised or erased.

If your server goes down, do you know how to get your systems running again?

What happens to your data if your facility is damaged or unreachable?

What do you do when your business productivity drops because your IT system is down?

IT disaster recovery answers questions like these, allowing you to respond to system failures and minimize downtime.

What happens if your business productivity comes to a grinding halt?

For every hour of downtime, your company loses money and, sometimes, its reputation.

How would you minimize the downtime to come back online? How could you prevent this from happening in the future?

Fortunately, there are ways to prevent downtime, lost revenue, and damaged reputations.

What would you do if you turned off your computer and all your files were gone? What would you do if none of the programs worked or had also vanished?

This is stressful on a personal computer, but what if this happened on your work laptop? Or for your office?

Would you have to start from scratch? Or would you have copies of the data saved and ready to reinstall?

Backup and recovery systems safely store data from a designated timeframe in case data is erased or compromised.