| It's hard for me to believe that I actually have to | | | | future costs if anything were to happen to the |
| address this, but a lot of companies are still using | | | | building that the company inhabits. |
| (get ready for this) TAPES to back up their data, | | | | In addition to this, another more tangible hidden cost |
| instead of just opting for the most intelligent choice, | | | | that these companies are paying for avoiding the use |
| using an online backup service! This is primarily due to | | | | of an online backup service is the plain and simple |
| the fact that they don't want to update their digital | | | | cost of buying and replacing the tapes themselves. |
| tape backup systems, which are obviously already | | | | After all, tape is not that durable of a medium, so if |
| set up and paid for. However, what these companies | | | | these companies are trying to keep their data safe |
| may not be realizing is that there are indeed hidden | | | | at all they are supposed to replace these tapes at |
| costs that exist due to them sticking to such an | | | | least once a year. And they don't come cheap, often |
| antiquated system. | | | | times costing from $50 to $100 per tape, money |
| The first of these is obvious: the cost of taking the | | | | that could be used much more effervescent by |
| risk of losing your data. Tape, like any other medium, | | | | investing in the affordable world of online backup |
| is vulnerable to destruction in any number of ways, | | | | services for their company, which would both bring |
| and by keeping their backups on tapes, usually on the | | | | them into the current technological era and make |
| premises of the company no less, these well-meaning | | | | their company much safer when it comes to the |
| folks are making themselves extremely vulnerable to | | | | maintenance and security of their data. |