Your data equals money - protect it with the proper care.
No one ever realizes how important something is until it's gone. Odds are if you are reading this article about computing, you, too, have a hidden investment in your business and you probably don't realize it.
Your Data Equals Money! Let me illustrate with a story. It was a normal afternoon for me until I had a frantic call from an accountant. It was tax season and his hard drive had crashed that day. All of his clients' tax information was on the hard drive and it was critical he got it working again. Why? He knew he would have to spend a lot of time rebuilding the data and then triple checking his work. Thankfully, for him, we were able to restore the hard drive without any data loss by the next afternoon. Unfortunately, he did not listen to me after that to back up his data. (Yes, even we nerds have some good advice.)