Let's think the unthinkable. What if a disaster destroyed your offices? What if an epidemic outbreak* stranded your employees at home? What if a disastrous CPU vulnerability, a bug or a Windows® update incapacitated all your PC's? What would be your Plan B?
Worse still: If disaster struck the Internet, your cloud shares, or the cloud-based Line of Business application(s) that everybody uses in your industry, would you lose your customers or would you be the last competitor standing?
How much redundancy and resilience is built into your IT infrastructure? What do you do when prolonged or repeated Internet outages occur? What if your firewall fails? Your VPN? Your mail server? Your backups? A domain controller? A server? A drive?
If you were an electric utility recruiter hiring temps to work on power lines; which would you rather hire? The ones who are wary of electricity or the ones who are not? Now, if you were recruiting a midsize business IT Manager or CIO and asked applicants whether they are wary of custom code, which would you hire? The one who loves coding or the one who dreads it?
Backups are like insurance, a painful necessity. In a nutshell, how do you do them right and cheap?
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