The unprecedented situation with the COVID-19 outbreak has led to governments directing their citizens to stay at home. The business community has been forced to implement these social distancing measures to help slow down the spread of the coronavirus. Work from home, or teleworking, has been adopted by many companies to ensure business continuity. Providing the necessary technologies and tools for employees to be able to work from home is only one part of the challenge facing IT departments. The other part is what to do to protect business data and carry out backups in this new decentralized landscape. This blog post explains how these circumstances affect the overall approach to routine backup activities, recovery processes and other aspects of backup strategy, as well as offers practices to follow during this period.
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