Advantages of Offsite Backup
Posted on 01-25-11
The most important asset of any business, regardless of its size, is its data. The loss of any amount of data can put the company at risk. Users can make mistakes, viruses can corrupt data, hard drives can fail, laptops can be stolen or lost, and natural disasters can easily put the business at risk.
Storing data offsite is easy, secure, and affordable. Tape backup solutions are most common, but can have some drawbacks. They require initial costs to implement, internal staff to maintain and operate, and can be a hassle when key data needs to be recovered as quickly as possible. Keeping backups offsite with a trusted third-party provider is a proven solution that works.
Offsite Backup Benefits
1. Cost Effective- No capital costs, usually a recurring monthly fee, no operating costs, no tape storage costs.
2. Reliability- Automated daily backups, redundancy with local and online backups including replication between multiple datacenters, less down time and reduced loss of productivity with data recovery in just minutes, works with laptops, PCs, file servers, network shares.
3. Encrypted Backup Process- Software agents manage the connection to the Internet and the encryption/compression of data prior to transferring data to datacenters, security is provided via secure sockets to the data centers with 256-bit encryption, account passwords and encryption keys, data never travels un-encrypted including during the restore process.
Offsite backups are used by most industries including manufacturing, education, financial, retail, distributors, and non-profit to name a few. Organizations of any size with an Internet connection can benefit from an offsite backup solution. Offsite backups require an Internet connection to work. Ideally a broadband connection of cable, DSL, or leased line is optimal, but not required. These connections have the benefit of faster transmission rates and the ability to handle larger volumes of data.
The cost of offsite backup solutions will vary slightly from different providers. Setup fees can range from no setup fee to a nominal fee. Offsite backup can be charged by the total amount of data that is being stored or by the number of computers or servers being backed up. A general rule is the more space you need the higher the price.
Offsite data backup provides a clear cost-effective solution over the traditional method of tape data storage. It offers a secure, simple alternative to protect your investment.
Opti-Vise provides organizations with help managing and maintaining their business critical systems and mitigates potential security risks. Opti-Vise provides fully managed anti-virus and spyware solutions along with our monitoring services. For more information regarding our monitoring services, contact us at (800) 834-7479 or sales@opti-vise.com today.
Post written by Michael Hardwick
