How Essential is Offsite Data Backup for your Business?

Your current IT Service provider will be fully aware of the level of valuable data within your business.

But do they know just how valuable this data is?

The average cost of a single incident of data loss is £10,000, this is generally due to many small and medium sized businesses not having a data backup plan in place, or they may use strategies which are unreliable due to faulty testing.

Many small and medium businesses are not aware of the importance of the system data so may not have thought about backing it up, but may use an old backup process which results in unreliable backups taking place. Offsite backup was previously known as a high form of technology so was not used by many SMB’s. Offsite backup is just simply backing up client data, securely transferring it across the internet and storing it in ‘The Cloud.’

Any reliable IT solution provider will ensure the data backup strategy is tested and verified before being put in place to ensure that the backup is reliable, and they will also make sure the strategy used is secure and only certain people have access to these files. Client backups are done automatically, usually overnight, so that your day-to-day tasks will not be interrupted. If a problem is identified when the backup is taking place, then your IT provider should look into this problem for you and resolve it.

Backing up your business data is important for your business to prevent data loss but many businesses do not realise this importance so ignore it.

Are you one of those businesses who do not regularly backup your data?

Posted: 05/06/2013