Offsite Backup and Storage

Does your organization use offsite backup and storage? if not, could offsite backup be the right solution for your organization?

Offsite storage can remove the fear, stress and the worry of the possibility of permanent or inaccessible data loss and should ensure that the organization’s irreplaceable data is safe, in the event of a or a catastrophic disaster.

Disasters can happen anywhere in the world they can include manmade disasters like the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center to natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, and fires that can be unexpected and devastating, to both lives and families.

The operational impact to a businesses that is unprepared when a disaster occurs can have long lasting implications and the business can come to a complete standstill for days, weeks or months. In house server problems caused by human error, espionage, power surges and hardware or software issues can all incapacitate both tape and disk type storage media devices, putting an immediate halt on access to all the data that is stored on the media affected.

The most important asset of any business in these data driven times is their data and if the data becomes irretrievable or inaccessible because of an in house server crash it can put the overall stability of a business on shaky ground. Backup software programs, can be the best solution and once set up, can protect your data by automatically transferring your files at scheduled daily times (commonly done at night) to remote offsite backup and storage data center, that will mirror the data and in the event of a data disaster will protect valuable information and keep your business assets safe.

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Offsite backup software can be used with telephone lines, network connections or online - over the internet to safely transfer your data to a secure remote location. There is a variety of offsite backup software programs and services advertised online today that are easy to setup, easy to use and are considered as a low cost offsite backup solutions.

Offsite storage

Automated offsite data storage has been gaining momentum over the last few years and will continue to grow as the speed and volume of data transfer online increases. Organizations worldwide are using remote offsite backup storage facilities to ensure their data is secure and will be accessible in the event of a disaster, large or small.

Secure offsite data backup services

The method of data transfer to the secure offsite backup server begins with the software, verifying the data for integrity then compressing the data into small archives. The data is then encrypted for high security and then transferred to the offsite storage system and again verified for integrity. Some data storage services may split the data storage into separate back up locations to provide even more security. The encryption is normally (128-bit level) military grade to ensure secure data transfer that is only accessible by the password holder.

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If you have not already considered
using secure online backup and storage
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serious look now.

The protection and peace of mind you
can get from online backup and
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Most businesses have not even
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data disaster occurrence.

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