Atempo Live Backup: Top Four Myths of Laptop and Desktop Backup

Top Four Myths of Laptop and Desktop Backup

In a report from International Data Corporation (IDC), more than 300 million business PCs have a combined 109 petabytes of data—about half of all the corporate data residing on PCs and laptops—that is not backed up regularly. If your organization doesn’t protect laptops and desktops with an enterprise-level solution, it may be because it’s holding on to one of these myths.

Myth 1: Laptop data is not business critical data
In 2009, Gartner predicted that as much as 80 percent of businesses' critical data now resides on employee laptops and desktops, not on the company's internal network. How much does data loss cost companies? A Ponemon Institute study sponsored by Intel estimated the average cost of a lost laptop to be a whopping $49,246, mostly due to data breach and intellectual property loss.

Myth 2: Users will do their part in the backup process
Scheduled backups rely on consistent connectivity, which is often not available remotely. But going back to more basic solutions—issuing external hard drives to your users or directing them to copy important files on a file server—is even riskier. The best-intentioned road warriors won't take time to manage files on a regular basis, even if they’re connected remotely via VPN.

Myth 3: IT doesn’t have bandwidth to manage laptop backups
In a time when budgets are short and IT departments are downsizing, organizations are reluctant to add burden to already stretched IT staff. But with an enterprise-level solution, deploying and managing laptop backups can require less time and effort than restoring a single lost machine.

Myth 4: You’ll need two solutions to support both PCs and Macs
Not if you choose the right solution. Atempo Live Backup offers a single console that allows administrators to set up, monitor and maintain uniform backup policies for both Macs and PCs, regardless of their location.

Learn more about Atempo Live Backup, our continuous data protection solution for laptops, desktops and workstations.