| In today's fast paced data-centric world of personal | | | | can you do about it? |
| computers and consumer/business electronics (such | | | | An excellent solution is to employ offsite backups. |
| as PDAs and digital media players) we have, as a | | | | Offsite backup solutions allow you to store critical |
| society, developed a reliance on digital data. We have | | | | data that is crucial to your business or personal |
| particularly developed a dependence on data stored | | | | computing experience. Offsite backup providers |
| on various magnetic media such as hard drives, | | | | make it quick and easy for you to back up your |
| removable disks, and magnetic tape. While some | | | | most important files to a secure, offsite facility that |
| computer users may never have had a problem with | | | | offers redundant storage, and round the clock |
| loss of data due to viruses, Internet worms or file | | | | accessibility to your files in the event of a critical |
| corruption, most of us have at some time | | | | "system meltdown". When you use an online offsite |
| experienced the frustration and loss of productivity | | | | backup provider, you can be secure in knowing that |
| that comes with the loss of computer data. | | | | your files and important information will be available |
| Perhaps someone in your office deleted files off the | | | | to you no matter what happens to the machines you |
| network that your entire team had been working on | | | | work on every day. |
| for months. Or maybe the corporate firewall didn't | | | | Even if your computer needs to be completely |
| stop the latest Internet-borne virus that has a | | | | formatted or your laptop is stolen you can have the |
| penchant for overwriting ".doc" files with junk data. | | | | peace of mind that the most important part of your |
| Like it or not, if you connect your computer to the | | | | computing experience -- the data you generate on a |
| Internet (and in some cases, even if you don't), your | | | | day to day basis -- is safe and secure and always |
| mission critical data is at risk. The question is: What | | | | available to you. |