BACKUPS
Disasters happen - and they can, and do, destroy businesses. Owners can prevent or limit damage and disruption through a solid backup and disaster recovery strategy. Protecting irreplaceable data is the first step in safeguarding a business from IT disasters. Planning for, and preventing, disasters, is the second.
Online Backup - Also known as remote backup or remote data backup, online backup has become an extremely attractive option due to cheap bandwidth, cheap storage capacity and low-cost services. However, the consumer focused services you hear advertised don't provide considerations like versioning or encryption that businesses require. Our backup system copies your critical data to an offsite server, where it is stored securely in an encrypted form. Data recovery is as easy as logging into the provider's website and pulling the files back.
- Would flood, fire or theft tomorrow mean banruptcy for your business?
- Would the business survive irrevocable data loss from a server?
- What data is most critical to your company's survival?
- How much downtime can your business tolerate?
We help clients to identify business-critical IT functions and downtime tolerance (how long critical functions can be down), and work with you to implement optimal and affordable business continuity strategies. Business continuity plans include combinations of strategies like these:
- Regular backups of critical data
- Redundant hard drives to allow one drive to take over if another fails
- Constant monitoring of drive function, capacity and errors, to prevent disasters before they happen
- System backups using specialized hardware and software, to back up critical applications and operating systems for faster recovery
- Virtualization of systems to allow instant temporary recovery while the main system is repaired
- Hosting servers in a data center where they are offsite, managed and in a secure, controlled environment
- Mirroring entire systems offsite for instant switchover in case of server failure
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