| Online backup, why is it so crucial? | | | | night, or when you remember? The beauty of online |
| Most companies, business corporations and | | | | backup is it saves your data as you write it. If you |
| organisations nowadays are totally dependent on | | | | backed up your data the night before, how much |
| their computer data; and the value of that data is | | | | information has been input if your hard drive fails at |
| not easy to cost. However, the cost of a data loss | | | | 4.00 pm? How much crucial information and how |
| to any business is very significant, not only in the | | | | many total man hours of work will have been lost |
| man hours that it would take to recover it, if | | | | during that period? |
| recovery were possible; but also financially. | | | | Data loss can happen to organisations even with |
| What price can be put on lost invoices for goods and | | | | good backup protection; but will all items be on the |
| services, records of monies owed to the company | | | | tape or disc, such as contacts, email messages and |
| and lost details of every customer and supplier. Add | | | | other important items perhaps stored in folders in |
| to that the records stored of every product a | | | | Exchange, Outlook, Domino and GroupWise. They |
| company may stock, the quantities on stock, the | | | | would if you were using remote backup and elected |
| amount on order, the supplier of that product and | | | | to back them up as part of your online data backup. |
| the cost and selling prices. How much would it cost | | | | Who do you call if you back data up yourself to |
| your company to manually reinstate that lot if your | | | | tapes etc and you can not restore your data; a very |
| data was lost? Online backup is the most cost | | | | expensive IT expert? Customer service and |
| effective way to prevent against data loss. | | | | assistance with data restoration, comes free with all |
| Just to emphasise how vulnerable your data is, how | | | | good online data backup companies. |
| many times recently have you read in local | | | | On line backup companies offer the most reliable and |
| newspapers about businesses being broken into and | | | | cost-effective solution for bringing your business |
| computers stolen. Apparently there were over | | | | back online, in the event of any data loss or disaster |
| 20,000 computers stolen last year. What happened | | | | scenario. |
| to the companies who were affected by that? How | | | | So, I hope that I have managed to emphasise the |
| many closed their doors forever, how many gave up | | | | importance of online back up; and how critical it is in |
| shortly after; total data loss is as disastrous as that. | | | | this computer age, to every business and |
| If only they had chosen online backup. | | | | organisation, from large conglomerates down to the |
| Then there was the even bigger list of companies | | | | one man business. You will be very fortunate if one |
| who suffered total hard disc failure, had viruses, fires | | | | day disaster does not strike your data system and if |
| on the premises and flood damage. | | | | you are not fully protected by online backup, why |
| So how do you back up your records, disc, tape; and | | | | not look into it now before it is too late. |
| how often do you back them up; religiously every | | | | |