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							Is Remote, Online Data Storage Really Necessary?
The need for reliable, authentic data backup is real -- but the "why" of
choices made is often hopelessly obscured for business owners by endless
truckloads of technical jargon understood only by the geeks.
Most business owners today would wind up in "rubber rooms" in a hurry
were it not for their Information Technology (IT) people. How many CEOs
out there actually speak or understand "Techie" or the reasons why they
need what IT says they need?
No one's challenging the importance or value of a good IT Department in
today's business world - but top management really should understand at
least the basic reasons IT makes the choices and decisions it makes. So,
in plain English, here's why online, offsite dat a storage should be given
serious thought.
Consider how crippling (and painful) would it be if your business
suddenly lost all its files. Customer data ... customer orders ... your
own business data.... Just imagining what it would be like is enough to
send most business owners into a panic - and rightfully so. Yet many (if
not most) businesses put their commercial lives at risk online every
single day -- and aren't even aware of doing so.
In a business sense, if in no other, ignorance most definitely is not
bliss. With the explosion of commerce on the internet, competition is
fiercer than it has been ever before in history. In today's business
climate, it's absolutely essential that your online business operate
without fail day and night, every day of the year -- because if error
messages or downed servers or other glitches greet potential customers
when they access your site, your many competitors are just a simple
mouse-click away, ready and eager to snatch them out of your hands.
Your every day, online dealings with customers are conducted with the
help of databases on your own servers, on your own premises, supplying
relevant customer and business information. Any significant or recurring
glitch in this service instantaneously translates to poor customer
relations, loss of business and a sullied business reputation. Any way
you look at it, loss or corruption of customer data is going to cost your
business time and money - whether it's in lost or inaccurate sales or in
server downtime to find and fix the errors.
Remote, offsite backup essentially functions in the same way regular tape
backups do - but with one major - and important - difference. Instead of
sending backups to a tape or to another drive attached to your on -site
server, data is sent to another computer safely off-site. No one has to
remember to do it, either; it's automatically done, each and every day.
Even if you already utilize a tape backup system, incorporating a remote
backup system as well makes sound business sense. Critical files (such as
customer contacts, billing data, client databases, etc.) can be kept on
the remote backup system. Your tape system then can be used to create a
full backup of the system just once a month or so. Doing this, your on -
site tapes will last longer - and the drive will require less maintenance
- while the remote backup gives you quick and easy retrieval of critical
files and databases as needed.
With online backup, smooth functioning of online transactions supplying
crucial customer and business information is assured. A good remote
online backup service keeps your data safe and secure in remote locations
and allows you to access, update, and recover important files and
documents without your business suffering downtime or lost customers.
You can never be too prepared when disaster strikes. Protect yourself
from data loss with online backup from Global Data Vault. Avoid downtime,
revenue loss and angry customers with remote backup services from Global
Data Vault.

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