Data is the lifeblood of every business. Without accurate, up-to-date records of your products, personnel, customers, and - most importantly - sales and expenses, no business can function. That's why it's crucial to protect your data from loss by backing it up. A quick look at the typical backup products available today shows that there are a wide variety of physical choices: tape drives, hard drives, USB keys, even solid state drives. However, the problem with all physical media is that they fail - and it's not a matter of if, but when. The better solution is to store your data offsite using a network backup.
93% of all businesses that experienced a data loss that lasted 10 days or longer were forced into bankruptcy within a year of the disaster; 50% were forced into bankruptcy immediately. (Source: National Archives & Records Administration in Washington)
20% of small to medium businesses lose critical data every 5 years due to some form of disaster event. (Richmond House Group)
According to the Gartner Group, in 2011, 40% of small to mid-sized businesses that handle their own network and that use more than e-mail will be hacked, with more than 50% unaware that their security has been compromised.
About 70% of business personnel suffer data loss due to accidental file deletion, hard disk or system failure, viruses, fire, or some other calamity at some point in their working life. (Source: Carbonite, an online service)
Remote backups work by having your crucial data backed up on a regular basis (every night is highly recommended) and then sent over the Internet into secure storage at a remote, high-security facility - the kind of place where keeping data safe is their primary concern. This guarantees the safety and timeliness of your data, should you need to recover it - and eliminates the worry that the same disaster that affects your on-site systems will take out your backup data as well.
If your business is getting by with basic data backups sitting locally on-site (and only as up-to-date as the last time someone remembered to do a backup) - or worse yet, no backup system at all - you are sitting on a time bomb that could go off at any minute, taking your key data and your business with it. When disaster strikes, you want to be back up and running as soon as you can; every hour of downtime is an hour of lost revenues. Even small losses from a single user or computer can cripple a business if recovery takes too long - or isn't possible. Every owner and manager should be in touch with one of the Toronto IT services that can help prevent such a nightmare scenario.
93% of all businesses that experienced a data loss that lasted 10 days or longer were forced into bankruptcy within a year of the disaster; 50% were forced into bankruptcy immediately. (Source: National Archives & Records Administration in Washington)
20% of small to medium businesses lose critical data every 5 years due to some form of disaster event. (Richmond House Group)
According to the Gartner Group, in 2011, 40% of small to mid-sized businesses that handle their own network and that use more than e-mail will be hacked, with more than 50% unaware that their security has been compromised.
About 70% of business personnel suffer data loss due to accidental file deletion, hard disk or system failure, viruses, fire, or some other calamity at some point in their working life. (Source: Carbonite, an online service)
Remote backups work by having your crucial data backed up on a regular basis (every night is highly recommended) and then sent over the Internet into secure storage at a remote, high-security facility - the kind of place where keeping data safe is their primary concern. This guarantees the safety and timeliness of your data, should you need to recover it - and eliminates the worry that the same disaster that affects your on-site systems will take out your backup data as well.
If your business is getting by with basic data backups sitting locally on-site (and only as up-to-date as the last time someone remembered to do a backup) - or worse yet, no backup system at all - you are sitting on a time bomb that could go off at any minute, taking your key data and your business with it. When disaster strikes, you want to be back up and running as soon as you can; every hour of downtime is an hour of lost revenues. Even small losses from a single user or computer can cripple a business if recovery takes too long - or isn't possible. Every owner and manager should be in touch with one of the Toronto IT services that can help prevent such a nightmare scenario.
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