| Business Consultants earn hundreds of thousands of | | | | Nature's wrath and you have a recipe for some |
| dollars every year showing businesses how to | | | | serious data loss in the unfortunate event that one |
| improve their productivity. All business consultants in | | | | of these uncommon, but critically devastating, events |
| the Information Technology area agree that the | | | | occur. In most cases your existing backup solution |
| biggest threat to business survival is data loss. | | | | would be useless and would suffer the same peril as |
| There are many different data backup solutions | | | | your original data. |
| available on the Internet today. Unlike years past | | | | The answer is simple: Have a complete, up-to-date |
| there are not only different providers but also many | | | | copy of your data stored at a different location. You |
| different methods of data backup. Some solutions | | | | should back up your data using an offsite data |
| are "on-site" based methods. These include tape | | | | backup service. Offsite data backups allow you to |
| drives or other magnetic storage media, DVD-R and | | | | store mission critical digital files in a secure, remote |
| CD-R based methods and NAS (network attached | | | | location. When you store data in an offsite location |
| storage) methods of creating local (within the LAN) | | | | you are doubling the protection of your most import |
| backups of critical data. These methods of data | | | | data files and enabling a level of security that even |
| backup are definitely better than nothing, and can | | | | the best on-premises data backup solutions can't |
| provide protection against user error, data corruption, | | | | provide. |
| and in some cases even computer theft (that is if | | | | Your data is encrypted and backed up over your |
| the data backup equipment itself isn't also stolen) and | | | | existing internet connection to a secure server. You |
| many of the other pitfalls associated with digital | | | | can set it up to perform backups at any frequency |
| media. | | | | you wish. You can even set up the system to |
| But what about protection against the most powerful | | | | schedule backups while the office is empty on |
| of all forces, Mother Nature? | | | | weekends and evenings, or when the computers are |
| Hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, and other natural | | | | idle for a certain period of time (great for those |
| disasters are a serious potential threat to the crucial | | | | systems that need to be accessed 24/7 and cannot |
| data you have stored within your computer network. | | | | afford the potential downtime that may be incurred |
| Add into the equation the collateral damage of | | | | due to backup procedures being run at the time). |
| flooding and fire that often comes along with Mother | | | | |