“A company must safeguard its own or anyone else's data, by appropriate precautions against loss, corruption or unauthorized disclosure”
DATA PROTECTION ACT 1998

Ever since we’ve had business computers, there have been warnings about the failure of computer systems, data loss and the impact on companies and their business. But after all this time the message still falls on deaf ears. Users and even IT staff seem to treat backup as an optional extra, and not an option they want.

Online Offsite Data Backup

You have a legal obligation under the Data Protection act to protect the data on company computers.

The legal obligation aside your company has invested a lot of time, money and energy in creating the data that drives your business.  Sales data, customer and supplier data, product data and accounts data is invaluable to your business don't you want to ensure it is protected and safe?  Studies have shown:

• 1MB of YOUR data is worth approximately £5,000 ¹
• Re-creating just 20MB of lost data could cost in excess of £8,000 and take nearly a month to rebuild ²
• Recovery of data on a crashed hard drive can cost a fortune and there is no guarantee of success ¹

The business data stored on your office computers is critical to the continued operational success of your business.  The loss of this data or temporary inaccessibility to it can undermine your competitive edge.

Casues of data loss

Companies without a comprehensive backup policy could be out of business within 2 years of major data loss. ³

Most companies use conventional backup methods and tools such as tape, in today’s business with the reliance on electronic data is this no longer good enough. 

Tapes are prone to failure –critical backup failures cannot always be detected before you need to restore the data. 

Tapes are slow to save data to and restore data from.

Tapes need to be replaced after a set number of backups and tape drives need regular maintenance.

Tapes have a fixed capacity and once the data capacity has been reached you either need to upgrade the hardware or invest in expensive tape autoloaders to increase the capacity.

Data is not encrypted and tapes are easily stolen or misplaced.

Backup247 Service, the online backup service from Supported247.com is the solution. We offer a secure, online backup service for all your data.  Your data is automatically backed up every night and you are emailed with the results.

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Our software protects your business, not just your data. Contact us now to get your critical business data protected as soon as possible. Or click here to start your trial.

 

1	David M. Smith, PhD. "The importance of investing in that ounce of prevention.” The Cost of Lost Data. 2003.
2	Recent study from Ontrack Data
3	Breach Study,Oct. 2005 Ponemon Institute
4	Study by the National Archives and Records Administration