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Why Do Companies Backup So Infrequently?
Orome1 writes "Businesses are on average backing up to tape once a month, with one alarming statistic showing 10 percent were only backing up to tape once per year, according to a survey by Vanson Bourne. Although cloud backup solutions are becoming more common, still the majority of companies will do their backups in-house. Sometimes they will have dedicated IT staff to run them, but usually it's done in-house because they have always done it like that, and they have confidence in their own security and safekeeping of data."
Mod me down for trolling all you want, he deserved the pun after not making backups for 15 years consecutively.
I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?
Oh shush, everyone knows that the Cloud will cure all that ails you! Storage, backup, canker sores? The CLOUD!
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
Then a few weeks ago another unit on the industrial was torched -- arson. I have finally pursuaded them ...
Ahhh yes, the old "Nice data you have there, be a shame if something happened to it" trick.
No need to explain, friend, we all know what happened there.
I am curious if you did the deed yourself or contracted it out to a professional, though. ;)
Old stuff that's interesting just gets backed up in the cloud. Less interesting stuff gets reposted to see if it's more interesting this time around (if it is, then it goes into the cloud, if not, then rinse and repeat).