| e they understand how it works, many small to | | | | the customer him- or herself needs to access it. Even |
| medium-sized business owners eagerly accept their | | | | then, only the business has the encryption key |
| IT manager's suggestion to move their data storage | | | | needed to release the data to view. The level of |
| system to the services of a web-based storage | | | | encryption is extremely high, as well. Online data |
| provider. The reason why is simple: compared to the | | | | storage companies most frequently use the same |
| costs of traditional backup systems (including | | | | types and levels of encryption utilized by large |
| hardware, various media and costly, constant human | | | | financial institutions and the federal government. |
| interaction) the savings and benefits of an online | | | | Another plus of online data storage is the time |
| backup system are impressive, in terms of dollars, | | | | necessary to recall whatever data is required. |
| man-hours and reliability. | | | | Typically, recovery time for data stored online is |
| Large companies usually have the IT budget | | | | much less than the time needed to recover from |
| necessary to pay for on-site backup systems and a | | | | tapes, CDs or zip drives. And with online data |
| full-time, 24-hour staff to handle backups and | | | | storage, there's no IT personnel involved in either |
| restores. However - even though their data is just as | | | | accessing or restoring ... no time spent picking up |
| critical to success - most small businesses usually | | | | media from an off-site storage facility and bringing it |
| don't have the money to pour into that kind of data | | | | back to the office ... no time spent searching for the |
| storage system. There's hardly money for even a | | | | right tape and then downloading it to a server ... no |
| dedicated backup server - forget about a dedicated | | | | human error and no salaried time wasted on the |
| IT staff. The sad reality is that, most often, a small | | | | mundane (but necessary) machinations of manual |
| business' IT staff is so overloaded with and | | | | data retrieval. |
| overwhelmed by the many, vital tasks of managing | | | | Considering the time, personnel and budgetary |
| the company's data on a daily basis that they | | | | savings of using an online data storage system |
| frequently shove running backups to a back burner, | | | | instead of media-oriented in-house backups, it's no |
| just hoping they'll get to it before disaster strikes. | | | | surprise that so many small to medium-sized business |
| There's no worry about security of data in the hands | | | | owners are opting for this process in lieu of their old |
| of a reliable online data storage company, either. | | | | reliance upon media-based storage. The speed, |
| When that concern is voiced, it's almost always | | | | reliability and cost-savings of online data storage so |
| because the person worrying about it simply doesn't | | | | far outpace the budgetary, personnel and space |
| fully understand either the technology or the process. | | | | requirements of media-based systems that online |
| In fact, all stored data is encrypted before it's moved | | | | backup is poised to replace media backups as the |
| to the internet, and the data stays encrypted until | | | | system of choice in today's business world. |