cited reason overall. This creates a strong
link between events that force employees
to work overtime and a real risk of losing
valuable talent.
No matter the origin or impact, these issues
tend to all come back and fall on IT teams to
remedy. A common perception lately is that
IT teams are not skilled enough to meet the
new challenges of rising data levels and this
may be more than just perception. A Robert
Half Technology survey found that 39%
of respondents from IT teams felt there
were not enough workplace development
opportunities to keep their IT abilities up-
to-speed. This places IT teams on the back
foot when it comes to dealing with emerging
new technology and the ways it can cause
disruption to a business, creating additional
stress which is amplified when something
goes wrong.
These human aspects of downtime –
be it working too much overtime, the
demotivation of a loss in productivity, or the
drop in confidence that comes with a lack of
investment in training – require swift action
as part of a CIO strategy. To right these
wrongs and ensure your company avoids
losing top-talent employees, there are a
couple of angles to consider.
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The solutions
First, training. This means for everyone,
but particularly for IT teams who have
found IT transitioning at an unimaginable
rate. It’s smart to educate and inform
staff on best practices for responding
to the different security and technology
challenges that occur in today’s data-driven
world. Staff members need to feel confident
they are aware and informed enough to
deal with issues in real time when they
occur. To do this, there needs to be clear
disaster recovery (DR) plans and chains of
command for responding to disruptions
that staff are aware of and can rely on
in the event of a problem. In addition, IT
teams would benefit from further training
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in ways to test and execute DR plans,
managing and protecting data across
different platforms, quick recovery plans in
case of an emergency, and more.
Next, investing in resilient infrastructure to
prevent disruption and downtime. If you
provide your IT teams with solutions that are
able to recover data quickly and seamlessly,
you will lessen the chance of employee
overtime or loss of productivity and in turn,
keep employees happier and less stressed.
One of the best technologies to do this with
is continuous data protection (CDP).
Continuous Data Protection
CDP is a protection mechanism that allows
organisations to continuously capture and
track data modifications, automatically
saving every version of the data that
the user creates locally or at a target
repository. These are saved to a journal file
along with the corresponding file changes.
By utilising change block tracking, CDP
provides users or administrators with the
ability to restore data to any point in time
with remarkable granularity.
Continuous data protection offers the most
effective data protection for your business
applications and data. It also utilises
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