File Storage & Data Backup
Data can be the bread and butter for a lot of business and for some companies, it IS their bread and butter. Not having a solid data management plan can put your business at risk for having the doors open one day and being out of business the next.
Have you ever wondered what would happen if all of your company files were to simply disappear? How long would it take you to rebuild those files from scratch? How many of those files are irreplaceable?
If you error on the side of caution to those questions, then you need to consider some sort of backup solution for your files. I once read: "If you don't have 3 copies of the same file, you don't have a backup." How many copies do you have?
I have several clients that are in the graphic printing business. When I first arrived, neither had any sort of data management solution for their business. One company was holding all of their important files on a handful of USB storage drives that were being used as both backups and to serve those files to the production printers. Their idea of backups was to copy files to the USB drives every so often which worked, but it wasn't efficient and there was very little data redundancy. The other company, was also using a USB drive for backups, however they would only back it up maybe once every 3 - 6 months. Otherwise, ALL of the production graphic files were located on the primary design computer. While both companies came out ahead and didn't suffer from any catastrophic losses before I showed up, I was able to talk them into going with a small file server with multiple hard drives that automatically creates backups of the files stored on it. They can now use these central file servers with the peace of mind that when a hard drive fails, there's a lot less chance of losing all of their data. As you may well know, some graphic files are near impossible to replicate from scratch and if either of the design firms were to lose their graphic files, they would have a very difficult time trying to re-create them.
Data Recovery
I'll be honest. I hate data recovery. There's a reason data recovery operations charge $500 - $2500+ to recover data from one drive.
If you run into a deleted file, I might be able to get it back but if the drive itself is bad, I can't help. See the File Storage & Data Backup section above.