| Secure data backup has always been an issue for | | | | customers had been "temporarily affected", with |
| business. Let alone the fact that we live in a | | | | backup systems rendered inoperable. |
| technologically-advanced society: most of us have | | | | This was just an example, posed to illustrate the real |
| not changed since the times when people used to | | | | dangers of irrational data backup, which many |
| keep their valuable items wrapped up in a bundle, | | | | companies use to consider "safe". Even more |
| hidden in their house. Take the data backup | | | | dangerous accidents can happen to a company, |
| organization of companies and data centric | | | | destroying all its mission critical files and data. Let's |
| organizations, for example. | | | | involve some statistics. 75% of Companies Believe |
| When the Bunsfield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead, | | | | Their Data Is Safe if They Backup to Tape. They |
| Hertfordshire exploded in the morning of 11 | | | | leave their valuable information unsafe and rely on |
| December 2005, the truth about data backup and | | | | procedures such as tape backup. Tapes can be |
| restoration became a serious issue. The huge | | | | stolen, destroyed, sold to rivals. Anything can happen |
| explosions demolished all surrounding buildings, which | | | | to tapes. 97% of Companies Believe Their Data Is |
| could be heard at a radius of a hundred miles (160 | | | | Safe if They Backup to Tape and Store the Media |
| km). The storage tanks were extinguished in two | | | | Offsite. Offsite media storage is no longer enough; |
| days, just to re-ignite on the 13th of December. The | | | | the information is not safe, if the backup tapes are |
| whole store was then left to burn to the ground. | | | | destroyed by accident. Backup to Tape is No Longer |
| The unconfined vapor cloud explosion was another | | | | Enough. The worst thing is that the highly threatened |
| problem. The report claims that the vast explosion | | | | companies still don't realize it. Pay attention that |
| could be heard as far away as France and the | | | | Buncefield was only the 5th largest of over 50 |
| Netherlands. There were over 700 companies within | | | | refinery, storage and distribution sites in the UK, all of |
| a 10- mile radius of the explosion. You can imagine | | | | which are situated near major motorways and |
| exactly what happened to their data files, stored on | | | | conurbations. |
| tapes somewhere in a defeated safes. Fire-proof | | | | The question that you should pose to your mind is |
| saves can really be a bargain, but only if the ruins of | | | | whether you can afford to be struck by a disaster. |
| the falling building have not covered the said safe! | | | | The tape method of backup is no longer totally safe. |
| After an explosion of such a rank, for example, this | | | | The solution we offer to you is called Offsite Backup: |
| method of backup will prove its incompatibility to | | | | an automatic backup of your data at two remote |
| today's perils that lay ahead of some companies. | | | | data centers in different countries, which have |
| What if a building falls down, as happened to an IT | | | | redundant connections between themselves. As your |
| managed services company waiting to transport its | | | | data is secured in two different countries, the whole |
| data offsite. The safe could not be uncovered, and | | | | information can be accessed any time at any day |
| the whole information was lost. A bankruptcy is what | | | | that you choose. The replication of your data in two |
| happens after such incidents, thinking about a logical | | | | different centers is a real solution to all your security |
| sequence of events. The company was forced to | | | | bothers. |
| issue a statement admitting its ability to service its | | | | |