Top 10 Reasons for Using Disk-based Online Server Backup and Recovery

Backup of vital company information is critical to a company’s survival, no matter what size the company. Recent studies show that 93% of businesses that lose data due to a disaster go out of business within two years.

Increasingly, businesses are turning to disk-based online server backup and recovery solutions as the most cost effective fit for their requirements, when they have neither the volume of data nor the level of technical staff that characterize most traditional backup and recovery operations.

Data protection solutions that combine the latest advancements in disk-based backup with secure, integrated online technologies offer businesses fast and assured recovery of their critical business data while freeing limited technical staff for more value-driven tasks. They also reduce the burden of removing the data and storing it safely off-site, protecting it from local disasters.

Here are the top-10 reasons why businesses are turning to disk-based online server backup:

10. Greater reliability in recovering all data where and when needed is ensured, with successful data recovery guaranteed in writing -- Online backup and recovery maximizes the reliable recovery of a firm’s data by combining more reliable disk media with the use of an existing Internet connection to securely move backed up data to a safe, remote off-site location. Online backups ease of use and recovery ensures it will be reliably used — because backup and recovery are automatic “set-it-and-leave-it” processes. Finally, the best managed service providers of online backup and recovery guarantee recovery in writing in their Service Level Agreements.

9. Increased competitive advantage is promoted through improved access to data, more predictable cost control and flexible solutions that change with the business -- Access to all your data, all the time, is the prerequisite to successfully competing by responding faster, more proactively and more knowledgeably. Online backup and recovery gives you the edge by fully protecting your data and enabling you to immediately recover it when disaster strikes — or when you wish to restore data to a different location for any reason.

8. Freedom from routine backup and restore tasks allows redirection of staff time to value-driven projects with greater impact on productivity and profitability -- “Set-it-and-leave-it ”online backup and recovery solutions reliably and automatically offload these functions, freeing staff for work that has a more direct impact on your firm’s competitive advantage, productivity and profitability. Online backup solutions also standardize the backup process across your organization without employing technical staff at each location.

7. Enhanced ability to demonstrate compliance with regulations around information protection is enhanced through consistent, repeatable processes and controls -- Online backup and recovery enables you to automatically get your data off-site to a secure facility — a requirement for many industries. As privacy and records-retention regulations take effect, Online backup is always secured — during transmission, storage and access - offering protection traditional on-site methods can’t match. Additionally, web-based management tools allow you to control archive requirements that ensure compliance with corporate and regulatory guidelines.

6. Immediate data restoration either over the Internet or from on-site rapid recovery appliances reduces downtime costs -- online backup and recovery services immediately move data off-site by backing it up to disk over the Internet, you not only have the security of data that’s residing at least 50 miles away, you can also restore that data effortlessly. Instead of waiting hours, Internet-based restores enable you to recover data in minutes. After the initial back-up version is complete, only changes in that file or database are transmitted — a highly efficient approach that optimizes fast recovery, particularly in cases of data corruption, one of the most common causes of data loss. They also give you control over how much bandwidth is used during any specified time to accommodate your workload and dataflow.

5. A complete data protection solution addresses the entire data protection workflow and provides a higher level of reliability, productivity and cost containment  -- Disk-based online backup and recovery plans require one, low-overhead solution that addresses each step in the data protection workflow — while actually reducing the time, workload and cost associated with them, providing your firm with:

• Fast, comprehensive and continuous data backup

• Automatic and immediate transmission to an off-site location

• Secure storage that reflects your specific retention scheduling and policies

• Immediate recovery at the level of granularity you desire

2. Automatic and secure off-site electronic vaulting guarantees successful disaster recovery -- Disk-based online backup and recovery uses your current Internet connection to automatically transfer data off-site. Your backup data is immediately off-premises in just minutes after it’s been updated. No matter what type of disaster strikes a business, you can restore data from moments before the disaster happened.

1. Comprehensive and reliable data protection assures up-to-date recovery of all critical business data, including the backup of data in open files- - “Hands off, lights out” comprehensive and continuous backup means that, in the event of a disruption or disaster, you can restore data from a point in time just moments before the interruption, rather than from the previous evening (or earlier), dramatically improving your ability to meet Recovery Point Objectives and reduce the cost of downtime.

Online backup and recovery solutions fully protect business-critical data from natural and man-made disasters, human error, virus attacks, equipment failures and other business disruptions. To learn more about how your business can benefit, speak with a member of your Onsite Engineering team or contact EveryNetwork by calling 877-647-2262, emailing info@everynetwork.com, or visiting www.everynetwork.com.