Who needs online backup?
If you’re a in business in Ireland there are two incentives to implement an effective backup plan; business continuity and compliance. Modern IT practice centralises this information in a single fragile location. Loss of this data will dramatically impact your ability to service your clients. Data protection law requires that a holder of data must take significant precautions to safeguard the data against loss or disclosure. Reliable and secure backups are a cornerstone of any compliant IT operation.
Business continuity
Your records are vital to deliver effective service to your clients. Equipment can be replaced after a loss, but data must be protected before the loss. Backup is data insurance.
Compliance
Irish business practice is becoming more heavily regulated by the day. You may not realise it, but you store private information about your clients and employees and must apply best efforts in personal data confidentiality and also follow a defined off-site backup procedure for computer held data.
Traditional backup
Traditional backup means tapes, safes and manpower, but will deliver business continuity and compliance. It has two major flaws, security and human error. An old-school off-site backup dramatically elevates the risk of a data leak because your data is now on highly portable media stored outside your control. Encryption can be used to reduce the risk, but is expensive to implement.
An effective tape based backup methodology is not for the faint of heart. It is a complex process that requires significant IT knowledge to run backups, rotations, verifications and restores. This, along with the need to invest in backup software and hardware means backups will add significant costs to your business.
Online Backup with CDB delivers:
- Automation – Because it uses your internet connection to transport data, and our disks to store it, there is no tapes to change and transport. In fact the entire backup and verification process is automatic. Once set up, there is no need to operate the backups. You receive an automated email each morning detailing the previous night’s backup activities. Trained technical staff monitor your backups remotely, and are on hand to assist with restores.
- Security – We offer the same heavy encryption that governments and banks use to deliver total data security. AES-256 is certified, peer-reviewed and tested as unbreakable.
- Cost – There are no up front costs with our service. You only pay a low monthly/annual fee for the service. This includes installation, support and regular software updates.
- Irish base – The data is backed up to a secure data centre in Dublin. No data leaves the country.