asiGuardian Blog

It's surprising to see business owners who have never considered the impact of their business burning to the ground and realizing the devastation ensuing if their data was lost. Especially in knowledge based businesses where tooling can be re-ordered and replaced by insurance companies, but intellectual property can not.

As the summer winds down the team at asiGuardian has been reflecting on what's the lesson learned so far this year or the most salient points of the industry.

Two things come to mind. Most businesses lump backup and disaster recovery into the same solution. While they are related, they are NOT the same solution and plan. Second, most businesses aren't being diligent in looking at their offsite solutions retention capabilities for ARCHIVE of their backup.

When choosing a backup or DR plan/solution consult with someone who's had an outage of some kind and had to actually restore the tools you use. Experience and wisdom are not something that is easily substituted.

When choosing an OFFSITE backup provider be sure to ask them IF they even support the capability to retain multiple backups beyond the last backup of your data. If you can only go back one day and the data was corrupted yesterday, well, then that's not really backup is it. It's just an offsite copy of your existing problem. Think about it...

asiGuardian attended two open houses back to back with two businesses that are new to Lexington. Yesterday, asiGuardian was in attendance at the LabDX open house along with Gov Beshear, Mayor Newberry and LabDX CEO Rob Mudd. Today, asiGuardian was at Crown Medical Management's open house with their CEO Paul Caudill.

Both of these clients are strategic to Kentucky's economy in helping keep dollars in the medical industry local within their home communities. Growth is good (for all of us). Keep up the good work!

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