| The cost of storing and backing up information and | | | | performance. |
| data online has reduced dramatically within the past | | | | With tape style backup configurations, the upload |
| few years. As a result, many businesses and | | | | speeds are slower than online storage backup which |
| organizations are addressing the methods they use | | | | limits the quantity of data you can backup in one day. |
| for remote offsite backup up and safely storing data. | | | | Higher end cloud storage services offer faster upload |
| If you are considering moving to cloud storage for | | | | options which permit organizations to backup more |
| your business, here are a few things you should | | | | data on a daily basis. |
| ponder before making the move. | | | | Cost |
| Security Risks | | | | With tape backup storage, companies and |
| If you use online data storage, the data is | | | | organizations have the expense of added hardware, |
| transmitted through an encrypted network to a | | | | maintenance, personnel, as well as offsite storage. |
| secured collection repository. While this may eliminate | | | | With online data storage, companies can access |
| many security risks that are associated with tape | | | | storage for as little as $1 per gigabyte of storage |
| storage and backup, one should reflect what is in | | | | space. |
| store for the future when it comes to cyber criminal | | | | Automatic Backup |
| activity and cloud storage. | | | | Instead of dealing with all of the hassles involved |
| Recovery Time | | | | with tape backups, companies can simply map the |
| Recovering data through cold or warm backup sites | | | | cloud storage to a location on their server which |
| can take a significant amount of time. Online data | | | | allows data backup to be automated with no user |
| recovery can be instantly transferred without much | | | | interaction with the backup process. |
| down time which used to be associated with | | | | While cloud storage provides an easier way to |
| retrieving and loading tape backups. | | | | backup and store sensitive data in a more cost |
| Reliability | | | | effective way, before moving to this process of |
| While there's lots of ways that tape backups can fail | | | | storage it is necessary to investigate the cloud |
| and become insecure, cloud storage provides | | | | storage provider to get out what security measures |
| unmatched reliability due to the hard drives are | | | | they have in place for storing and encrypting data, as |
| configured with a redundant array of independent | | | | well as if they enforce strict policies on who has |
| disks (RAID) which stores the data on multiple hard | | | | access to the data. It is also important to review |
| disks. By placing data on multiple hard disks, | | | | their reputation and track record with other |
| operations can interact with each other in a more | | | | companies and organizations that use their cloud |
| balanced way which improves reliability and | | | | storage services. |