It's 3:00am...  Do you know where your data is?

Ever wonder where your data is when you are not watching?  Do you have ongoing concerns as to what you would do in the event of a catastrophic data loss?  You should.  The Gartner Group, one of the world’s leading IT think tanks, states that half the businesses that loses their critical data go out of business inside of 18 months.  Sobering statistics indeed!

Offsite backups should be a part of any business continuity and disaster recovery strategy.  Especially if you consider the following:  You get a phone call at 1:00 in the morning from your landlord telling you there has been a fire and you better get down here right away as the damage is significant.  You arrive on site to find out your Windows servers, desktop PCs and all your paperwork and intellectual data is in ruins.  Your first thought is “Thank goodness I have backups”.   Except that the individual who is usually in charge of daily backup media changes is away on vacation and no one took over the task.  Even worse, you discover that the backups have not been rotated offsite as per company policy.  Accidents happen and most of them are caused by human error.  

This is where online data backup and recovery solutions come in.  Offsite critical data backups give you a safe, reliable haven to park your most important information – the information you would use to rebuild your business.  Not the pictures from your last staff party or the MP3’s and joke files that get circulated on a regular basis – just the stuff that matters: accounting and HR information, proprietary intellectual data, client records; anything that is required to keep the business  up and running.  You simply cannot schedule your disaster and data recovery is the only thing that matters during and after a catastrophe.  And as a side benefit, if you have road warriors out there that create data and import it into the system upon their return or use a remote access solution, offsite backups can protect that data too by allowing them to backup (automatically) whenever and wherever there is an available internet connection.

And though most certainly, we by no means feel that offsite data backup solutions are a replacement for onsite backups due to the logistics involved with moving large amounts of data across the web, an offsite disaster recovery and business continuity solution is an important and integral part of any business plan.

For pricing and more information, download the overview or for a deeper dive, check out the technical brief and then contact us to find out how Syncronet can protect you against catastrophic data loss before you become a Gartner statistic.

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