You insure your house and your car, but what about your business data? Research indicates that most small business do not plan against data loss. On the whole, disaster recovery strategies are non existent and backup solutions if present are rarely sufficient.
Why is data backup so important?
Take a moment to reflect how much your business data is really worth. What would happen to your business if you lost all of your accounting and payroll records, customer details, product and service information, letters and emails?
Try to evaluate what it would cost to retype all that information, even if all of it was available to recover and re-enter. Would your business survive? Many don't!
Daily backups can be easily done to an external hard disk, however, this would not protect your data from a flood or a fire. Traditionally, businesses overcome this by backing up to tape each night and storing the tapes off-site. This process is laborious as someone needs to be responsible for rotating the tapes and transporting them to another location. In addition, the equipment costs are high, which is why until recently only the large organisations have been able to put in place a real disaster recovery solution.
So what is now available for small business?
With the introduction of our services big company solutions have become feasible for small business. With Business Sentinel, every night, any changes made to your business data gets compressed and encrypted, then uploaded to our dedicated servers.
So how does it work?
First you decide what data to backup, when and how regularly it's backed up and how many versions you wish to keep. Then we do the rest! The scheduled backups from your office are monitored by us to ensure everything runs smoothly.
Not only does this satisfy an off site disaster recovery solution, it provides you with the ability to recover data that has been lost. This means if you change a file and whish to revert to a previous version, you can!
In the event of an emergency, we will be there to assist your recovery at no extra cost.
Who can access my data?
When you use Business Sentinel your data is secured using industry standard 256 bit encryption. This means that even if someone could get hold of you're backed up data; they would need to know your password to access it.
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