Improving Your Business' Data Strategy

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Data is everywhere. It is on our phones, our TVs, our computers, our wearable tech, even our ovens, fridges and lightbulbs are passing information back and forth. We have never been so digitally connected, and technology does not show any signs that it will slow down with this regard. With 5G now upon us, and automated cars just around the corner, data really is one of the biggest and most used resources in the world.

When it comes to your business, you will no doubt handle data in lots of different ways. You may have designs and creative uses for data, but then you may have communications with clients, customer details, sales data, and so much more besides. Businesses in this day-and-age use much more data than they possibly realize, and for many that may mean that they should really have a strategy for dealing with the ever-growing data demands of their businesses.


Expanding Your Data Servers

As your data demands grow, so do your storage and server demands. Having an idea of when and how you can expand your data servers will help you dramatically. Forward planning will allow you to make any technical changes in advance and to ease any migration that will be required.


Covering Yourself In The Event Of An Emergency

Your data policy should cover what you would do in the worst-case scenario. With so many problems that could cause you to lose data, from a natural disaster, through to cyber attack, you need to know that if the worst should happen, you will be able to get back to business as usual as quickly as possible. You will also need to say with confidence that none of your customer’s data will have been put in any danger.

Getting the right disaster protection is important and QuoteColo can help here by helping you create a plan that will minimize any potential downtime, and ideally create a seamless continuous service that will not affect your business’s ability to trade.


Managing Your Data Security Needs

Your business will no doubt have a lot of data in its possession. Much of this will be collected from customers. Whether you have a contact list, or you keep files containing all of the personal data belonging to your customers, then you will need to ensure that this is maintained in the safest possible manner meeting with data protection regulations.

Hackers would love to get their hands on your customer’s personal details because it will mean that they can go off and hack them. You have a duty to prevent that from happening by having secure data storage.

Carrying out regular security audits will ensure that you are able to effectively manage your customer’s data and prevent any potential breaches from occurring. Using a specialist auditing company will highlight any weaknesses in your data management and you can go ahead and make any required changes based upon the information that is provided to you in these security audits.