Cutting the Costs of Your In-house Backup

A major concern in today's business environment is the problem of rising cost. You in the IT department must also find ways to deal with it. You should find means to save on periodic replacement and upgradation of your hardware and restrict regularly incurred consumables cost. One area that needs attention is the backup process followed by you. Are you sure that you have the best hardware and software to provide a quick, reliable backup which is also cost-effective?
You may be, in all probability using tape drives and magnetic tape media or inexpensive USB hard drives, along with some popular well-known software applications that are fairly reliable. But these backup systems, both the hardware and the software, are extremely unreliable. A tape hardware- and software-based backup system needs almost constant monitoring and tuning to keep it running well. The amount of manual intervention required from tuning the backup jobs to manually rotating and tracking the tapes or hard drives increases the chances of error and omission. Even then, the fact you get a successful backup does not necessarily mean you will be able to restore the backed up data, as a tape drive may fail to read a tape after a successful backup. There is also the question of properly preserving the tapes, which requires a cool and clean environment. Backups stored on an external drive do not provide protection from theft or fire can crash or become corrupt due to power outages or administrative errors and can even be misplaced. If you are storing your backup media at the same site that hosts your department, you are inviting a disaster, if a natural calamity like earthquake, arson, flood or cyclone occurs. The inability to recover critical information necessary to run the business can spell doom for a company. So, performing data backup in ways that are not totally secure and reliable does not make it really cost-effective.
The best option in today’s competitive and challenging business environment, is to opt for online backup. Partnering with a reliable online backup provider brings cost-effective benefits, such as, no additional backup hardware and software to be purchased and maintained, no routine purchase of backup media, no software maintenance in the form of upgrade, bugs, license costs, and administration. No dedicated IT staff to do effective daily backup. No need to carry/send the tapes to offsite for safe storage incurring additional costs and inconvenience. No possibility of theft and loss of your confidential business data. Online backup provides full data protection, quick and total data recovery and lower costs.

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