The Scary State of SMB Disaster Recovery Plans

Like the Classic 80's Glam Rock Hair Band Cinderella once said in the title of a hit song, "Don't know what you got till it's gone".

According to MSPmentor.net this morning:

Compounding this generally poor backup of virtual servers by SMBs are figures showing that 23 percent of SMBs lack an offsite backup strategy, while more than four in 10 (42 percent) use manual backup procedures such as tape or disk, as opposed to automated backup. Only one-fifth (21 percent) of SMBs back up to the cloud. The cloud only represents 19 percent of the total global SMB IT infrastructure, although one in four SMBs (26 percent) say their infrastructure will be more than half cloud-based by the end of the year.

You can read the rest of Dan Berthiaume's article on MSPmentor.net