”A little information I dug up on remote backup services.” I received an e-mail with this title from certain companies that are offering remote backup and disaster recovery services. The sales guy was quite unyielding in his attempt to pitch his service offerings and asked if I have reviewed them and the quote they sent me.
This got me into thinking as to whether this type of service is indispensable to our company or not. Computers are worth the programs they run on and the data stored in them. The threat of having a crashed hard disk is pretty much imminent to those who have been using the computer for more than three years. The work which we do on our laptops is very important and we don’t want to lose our data. A lost set of data will be a great inconvenience on our part.
Online Backup, also referred to as remote backup services or off-site data backup, is capable of providing a remote backup location for your stored data by using an existing internet bandwidth. This technology enables your business to implement data protection strategy which has off-site storage backup capability. All you need to do is setup your backup schedule and the software will direct your data to a secure center automatically which provides you with easy remote data protection.
There are, however, real differences that can be noticed among all these services, even though all of them has the capacity to safeguard your data in a secure, remote location. Ease of use in setup, choosing files and folders for backup, and file retrieval in case of loss are among the biggest distinguishing qualities. Data deduplication is a feature you may want to take a look at. Data dedupe will save your company loads of time and money.
Fortunately, our company hasn’t sustained any type of data loss as of yet. With our workforce increasing and most of them working off-site I know the time is coming and we need protection. We will pick only the finest remote backup services to safeguard our data. It was easy to setup, simple to use and very cost effective.