It’s an unavoidable fact that sometimes computer hardware and software fails. If you have a hard drive or network server that dies, you still need to have access to the data that was on it. Worse still, if your building burns to the ground, on site backups such as tape or CD will burn with it. This should be evidence enough that you need to be backing up your important data to a secure, offsite location.
To that end, here are some of the reasons why remote data backup is critical for the continuity of your business.

It’s secure: Professional online backup services encrypt your data in both directions. This means that even if your data is intercepted in either direction, that data is of no use to the hacker anyway.

It’s automatic: Quality online backup services offer client software which backs up your data to the remote location continuously. This can be done either at set intervals, or on an ad-hoc basis, when you tell it to.

On demand recovery: You can recover or retrieve your data when you need it. Offsite backups on tape or CD need someone to go and collect them from the remote location before you can use them. Cloud backups allow you to restore your data immediately.

It’s safe: Professional remote data backup services will mirror your data across multiple data centres, as well as have multiple data links to the internet to ensure redundancy. This means that if there is a problem at one datacentre, or a connectivity link goes down, you will still have access to your data.

It’s available everywhere: If you have workers on the road, or in remote locations, they will have access to their backups just as if they were sitting in your office.

You can’t avoid disasters, but you can mitigate the damage that they can cause to the continuity of your business. Using an online cloud backup solution allows you to get back up and running as quickly as possible if you have a major hardware or software failure.

Storage Guardian is currrently building a network of online backup VARs (Resellers) to resell its cloud backup solutions across North America.