Protecting data, one of the most valuable resources of the 21st century, is of vital importance. In some cases, years of effort and accumulated knowledge can be lost in an instant, potentially leading to the complete shutdown of a business.
According to a study conducted by Gartner, 43% of companies that experience a major data loss shut down immediately, while 51% partially or completely cease operations within two years. Only the remaining 6% manage to survive and continue their business activities. Although this study was conducted in 2010, if it were reassessed under the conditions of 2016, the impact of these figures would be even more striking.
There are many dramatic real-life examples related to data loss. For instance, in 2009, JournalSpace completely disappeared after losing its entire website due to a simple SQL query mistake. As you might expect, they did not have a proper regular backup operation in place; instead, they assumed that using RAID alone was sufficient for data protection.
If you believe that RAID technology has advanced so much that such incidents no longer occur, then let us look at our second example: the story of a customer who claimed, “DigitalOcean completely lost my virtual machines.” In this case, the RAID controller on the hypervisor server failed, resulting in the loss of all virtual machines. In DigitalOcean’s official statement, customers were advised to take snapshots if they wished to back up their data. However, it seems that the destructive impact of hardware failures at the RAID controller or disk layer on snapshot data integrity was largely overlooked.
Data Loss Is Not Limited to Deletion
Data loss does not occur only through accidental deletion. Let us expand the topic with a far more dramatic real-life example:
On February 5, 2016, the information systems of a hospital in Southern California were rendered unusable by a ransomware attack. The FBI and LAPD were involved in the investigation and recovery efforts, but unfortunately, all attempts failed. Some patients had to be transferred to other hospitals because access to CT scans, laboratory results, patient records, and medication information was no longer possible. The attackers who encrypted the data via ransomware demanded a ransom of $3.6 million. You can access the related news via the provided link.
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In Summary
- We use RAID to handle the failure of one or more disks. However, RAID is NOT a backup solution.
- Always take backups and make sure that you can successfully restore your data from those backups.
- Ensure that your backups are protected against attacks such as ransomware.
- Yes, our data is critical and must be backed up — but how?
Today, there are many backup software solutions available in the industry, supporting different platforms. While these solutions can be effective, their high costs often make them inaccessible. To overcome this problem, NGX Storage offers a cost-effective, fully integrated solution: Multi-site Remote Replication.
You can easily back up your data in point-to-point, one-to-many, or many-to-one architectures. Moreover, thanks to NGX Storage’s delta block-level technology, only the changed data is transmitted in a compressed and deduplicated form, ensuring highly efficient use of network resources.
Another major challenge in backup operations is the replication of directories containing a very large number of small files. In such cases, many traditional backup solutions not only consume excessive system resources, but also frequently fail before completing the operation. NGX Storage, on the other hand, operates only on changed data blocks. Therefore, whether backing up millions of small files or a single file of terabyte size, the process works with the same efficiency.
With NGX Storage, it is possible to achieve RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) values at the level of approximately one minute.