Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Protecting your business and sensitive information - affordable online remote data backup service

Small and medium size businesses carry an extreme yet unnecessary amount of risk using computers and business software. Nearly every business in the world relies heavily on one or more computers to run their business, manage customer information, schedules, invoicing, and more – yet most business owners don´t regularly back up and protect all of their computers offsite in a secure location. It seems crazy that businesses take on such risk, look at what the independent market researchers and other experts say:

Gartner

More than 10% of all PCs are lost or stolen

Between 40% – 80% of all vital data is stored on individual PCs rather than servers

Strategic Research Corporation

43% of US companies experiencing disasters never re-open, and 29% close within 2 years

Over 40% of lost or stolen data is valued at more than $5 million

Computer Technology Review

Of companies that experience a Remote Data Backup Service disaster, two out of five will be out of business within five years.

Veritas

72% of companies either have no business continuity or recovery plan, have not tested their plan, or the plan failed when tested.

Unfortunately, most businesses believe that they are safe using traditional backup methods. If you answer No to any of the following questions your business carries a high and unnecessary risk:

1) Do you perform daily backups?

2) Are you sure your current backup is valid?

3) Have you tested your backup in the last 6 months?

4) Are your customer records adequately safeguarded?

5) Can you restore your backed up Remote Data Backup Service in less than 1 hour?

6) Do you have, maintain, and enforce a digital records retention policy?

7) Do you store your backups more than 100 miles from the business site?

In order to properly safeguard your business every prudent business needs a reliable, easy to use, continuous and complete Remote Data Backup Service protection service. And, while there are several online backup services available most are expensive, unintuitive, and or lack critical functionality to ensure your business is protected in the event of theft and unauthorized Remote Data Backup Service access.

For businesses to affordably protect themselves against data loss they require a system that not only automatically backs up every computer after each file is changed but also protects you in the event your computers are stolen. Most small to medium size businesses don´t even realize that they are increasingly targeted for identity theft because they maintain high concentrations of sensitive customer information in one place!

In my experience DiskAgent™ is the only complete, affordable, easy-to-use, data and computer protection service available on the market today. Where others fail to deliver, DiskAgent shines by providing an inexpensive online backup service that also empowers users to remotely track and recover their stolen computer and enable them to remotely remove sensitive Remote Data Backup Service from the missing computer.

It is also true that many online backup providers are fly-by-night operators that quickly go out of business. When you are storing your Remote Data Backup Service offsite you want to make sure it is duplicated across multiple 1st class Remote Data Backup Service centers with proper security safeguards and by a company that will be around for the long haul. The makers of DiskAgent did it right by partnering with Amazon to provide their Remote Data Backup Service center infrastructure using Amazon Web Services.

The bottom line is if you own or manage a business you need to ensure you are adequately protecting your digital assets in an economical fashion. Look for a reliable service provider that provides unobtrusive easy to use and automated software so you only ever setup your backup and protection service once!
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