Good
Backup Strategy
Data is the lifeblood of any
business, and losing that data can quickly bring the business process to a
screeching halt. A good
backup strategy is essential to a successful business.
Over 50% of businesses who lose critical data never reopen their
doors. Of those that manage to remain
open, 90% will fail within two years.
Of those businesses that already
have an existing backup strategy, most save backups on tape or DVD, and then
store those same backups on top of the same machine or in the same building
as the computer being protected. Others
store confidential data on tape, with an employee taking the tape home with
them at night. Some will keep
the only copies of important data on a laptop!
This leaves the data being protected and the backups subject to loss
in the event of a fire or theft. Many
business owners also don’t realize that theft of a backup archive can be
more disastrous then theft of a computer through compromised confidential
data.
Threats to data are not
exclusively related to fire or theft.
Worms
and viruses are becoming even more malicious and can wipe out critical data
in an instant. Even more
businesses have never tested their backups, only to find that they are
worthless when they need them the most.
Of those that have good backups, they are usually a few days from
being current and will require hours of tedious and expensive work to
re-enter the missing data.
An off-site backup solution is
essential to protect data against these threats.
With CNS Offsite Backup, your data assets will be safeguarded by
reliable data backups and easy recovery. With OBS, your data is
securely backed up to our datacenters on demand or on schedule, using your
existing Internet connection. Data restoration can easily be performed
through a small tray icon or restore to a different computer via the OBS web
interface.
Data is encrypted with your
personal encryption key, before it leaves the computer being backed up.
The data actually stored on the off-site backup servers can not be decrypted
without your personal encryption key, known only to you. As if
compression an encryption were not enough, an additional SSL layer protects
the data in transit from your computer to the datacenter.
With Continuous Data Protection,
together with our In-File Delta incremental / differential backup
technology, whenever a file is saved, the changed part will be backed up to
the CNS Offsite Backup. Therefore, the backed up data is synchronized with
the live data. Besides, all versions of changes are kept on the backup
server and ready to be restored.
CNS goes beyond other off-site
backup services by including a “Piece of Mind Guarantee” with each
business backup subscription. If
you ever experience a hardware failure or other disaster impacting your
business and requiring the
immediate restoration of data, servers or workstations protected by a CNS
remote backup service plan, CNS will immediately provide you with hosted
virtual private server space for ten days without charge for each effected
server and/or workstation with a CNS OBM subscription.
The VPS space can be used as a restore point to get your critical
services online quickly. An
entire office destroyed by fire or flood can be brought back online
virtually in just a few hours with the CNS Piece of Mind Guarantee.
CNS offers a free 30 day trial
and setup is remarkably easy. Get
started today at www.CommercialNetworkServices.com/OBS
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