The risks of losing critical data are daunting—and dangerous—for banks, credit unions, insurance companies, health care providers, retailers, and other businesses with remote and branch offices. The remote/branch office (ROBO) can be a competitive differentiator for a business, but it can be uniquely vulnerable in the event of system failure or employee malfeasance. Worse, a data systems failure or loss of critical data can create organizational risk that goes beyond the branch office level. Regulatory compliance, business continuity, and litigation preparedness all may be put at risk for the parent company if critical data is lost at even one remote office.

Yet remote offices, outfitted with high-performance hardware and software, are often left without data protection, backup, and recovery processes of comparable quality to those at the headquarters’ office and, as a result, can leave business-critical data dangerously exposed and place the business at risk.

This white paper examines the vulnerabilities of today’s remote and branch office IT landscape, and details the advantages of a disk-based backup and recovery strategy for managing and protecting the data contained in these systems.