| > | | | | conducted with the help of databases on your own |
| The need for reliable, authentic data backup is real -- | | | | servers, on your own premises, supplying relevant |
| but the "why" of choices made is often hopelessly | | | | customer and business information. Any significant or |
| obscured for business owners by endless truckloads | | | | recurring glitch in this service instantaneously |
| of technical jargon understood only by the geeks. | | | | translates to poor customer relations, loss of |
| Most business owners today would wind up in | | | | business and a sullied business reputation. Any way |
| "rubber rooms" in a hurry were it not for their | | | | you look at it, loss or corruption of customer data is |
| Information Technology (IT) people. How many | | | | going to cost your business time and money - |
| CEOs out there actually speak or understand | | | | whether it's in lost or inaccurate sales or in server |
| "Techie" or the reasons why they need what IT | | | | downtime to find and fix the errors. |
| says they need? | | | | Remote, offsite backup essentially functions in the |
| No one's challenging the importance or value of a | | | | same way regular tape backups do - but with one |
| good IT Department in today's business world - but | | | | major - and important - difference. Instead of |
| top management really should understand at least the | | | | sending backups to a tape or to another drive |
| basic reasons IT makes the choices and decisions it | | | | attached to your on-site server, data is sent to |
| makes. So, in plain English, here's why online, offsite | | | | another computer safely off-site. No one has to |
| data storage should be given serious thought. | | | | remember to do it, either; it's automatically done, |
| Consider how crippling (and painful) would it be if your | | | | each and every day. |
| business suddenly lost all its files. Customer data ... | | | | Even if you already utilize a tape backup system, |
| customer orders ... your own business data.... Just | | | | incorporating a remote backup system as well makes |
| imagining what it would be like is enough to send | | | | sound business sense. Critical files (such as customer |
| most business owners into a panic - and rightfully | | | | contacts, billing data, client databases, etc.) can be |
| so. Yet many (if not most) businesses put their | | | | kept on the remote backup system. Your tape |
| commercial lives at risk online every single day -- and | | | | system then can be used to create a full backup of |
| aren't even aware of doing so. | | | | the system just once a month or so. Doing this, your |
| In a business sense, if in no other, ignorance most | | | | on-site tapes will last longer - and the drive will require |
| definitely is not bliss. With the explosion of | | | | less maintenance - while the remote backup gives |
| commerce on the internet, competition is fiercer than | | | | you quick and easy retrieval of critical files and |
| it has been ever before in history. In today's | | | | databases as needed. |
| business climate, it's absolutely essential that your | | | | With online backup, smooth functioning of online |
| online business operate without fail day and night, | | | | transactions supplying crucial customer and business |
| every day of the year -- because if error messages | | | | information is assured. A good remote online backup |
| or downed servers or other glitches greet potential | | | | service keeps your data safe and secure in remote |
| customers when they access your site, your many | | | | locations and allows you to access, update, and |
| competitors are just a simple mouse-click away, | | | | recover important files and documents without your |
| ready and eager to snatch them out of your hands. | | | | business suffering downtime or lost customers. |
| Your every day, online dealings with customers are | | | | |