In today s digitally driven world, data is everything. We store more and more things in pure electronic form, only ready to be printed out on demand. This helps to saves paper, space, ink, and time, which all adds up to saving you money, but it also opens your business up to a new set of threats. Just one piece of malware, one virus, or one lightning bolt and most of your business crucial data is obliterated.
Let s look at the seven reasons why a full system backup in a remote (online) location can be your business savior.
1) 90 all businesses that experience major data loss (without any backup, that is) are out of business within two years from the date of the major loss. There are five core causes of data loss, any of which could take place at any time in your business: computer hardware failure, human error, identity/data theft, computer viruses and corrupted software.
2) Online automated full system backups are easy to do, and highly affordable. The backup systems are easy and relatively fast to install, and in the event of major loss your data are easy to recover in full. All of the backup protection that you need is under one umbrella .
3) When you do a full system backup online, you have a much more secure backup system in place than one that you have in house. Those five core causes of major data loss could all affect your in house backup system just as they would your IT system. In fact, with an in house backup system, you are exposing your business to a far higher risk of identity and data theft, since these days it s easy to learn how to hack those systems or find somebody who can do it for you for the right price.
4) I already mentioned that online data backup systems are inexpensive. What about in house systems? Well, besides being higher risk, they are also far more expensive too. If you are using CD or disk or tape backups, and taking up employee time with the physical backup operations, you are costing your business, on average, over £60 per month. A remote data backup system is not only safer and easier to implement and operate, it only costs you perhaps £6 to £9 per month for the servicing fee.
5) Not only do you recover any lost data with ease, you do it quickly. Indeed, you do it within just a matter of minutes from the time you go into data recovery mode! Power surge in the morning? By lunch hour you re in full swing again, almost as if nothing ever happened at all.
6) If you don t have a full system backup in place, you might still be able to recover all of your lost data but at a price so steep that hardly any business can really afford it. And, the time it would take would eat you alive. This is why we have that statistic cited in #1.
7) Peace of mind. One of your greatest 21st century fears as a business owner is now put to rest when you have this full system backup in place.
Now that you see the full necessity of a full system backup, what are you waiting for?
Author Resource:
Derek Rogers is a freelance writer who writes for a number of UK businesses. For information about Networks, he recommends Network Needs, a leading provider of Disaster Recovery Services: http://www.networkneeds.co.uk/disaster-recovery.html
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