Disaster Protection with a Very Pleasant Surprise

There was so much good information in the VansonBourne European Disaster Recovery Survey, that I thought it was worth writing about it again. Twenty-five percent (25%) of the 250 European IT decision makers that VansonBourne interviewed reported having a data loss in the previous twelve months. The causes for the data losses included:

• Hardware Failure
• Data Corruption
• Loss of Power
• Software Failure
• Security Breach
• User Error
• Loss of Backup Power
• Physical Security
• Employee Sabotage
• Natural Disaster

When you think about Axxana, you probably think about protecting data from natural disasters, such as earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, and man-made disasters, such as bombings, explosions, and fires. And that’s exactly what we do. We’re fire-proof, smoke-proof, water-proof, vibration and shock-proof. Throw a javelin at us, and your data will be protected. But these kinds of disasters are near the bottom of the list of causes for data loss, so why do we even talk about it?  Good question.  Because, if you look up the list at all of the other causes of data loss, and you think about what we do, when combined with the snap-shot technology, asynchronous replication technology, and roll-back, roll-forward DVR-like capabilities of our partner, you will realize that we not only protect you from the really bad, but infrequent natural and made-made disasters, but most of the other causes as well. It’s a pretty good deal, and, for some, an unexpected additional benefit.