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Versioning and retention are two terms that often cause confusion when talking about online backup. They both refer to the storage of data but their exact meaning often gets mixed up and misunderstood by many people. Hopefully this short post will clear some of the fog.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has lost 340 laptops over the past two years it has been recently revealed. The organisation also admitted that less than half of those machines had encryption software installed to prevent the exposure of sensitive data.
Backup Direct's Managing Director, Brett Raynes, was recently asked to write an article for Director of Finance magazine about the importance of backup in Financial Services companies. You can read that article here.
When people first enquire with Backup Direct, it is common that they have recently suffered at the hands of tape backup. It could be unsuccessful data retrieval, a two week old backup or an incidence of data exposure but whatever it is it has come at a cost for the company.
It’s usually after this that they start to reassess their current backup strategy.
I just came across a funny spoof video about doing an 'Extreme makeover' on a company server room. Very American, but still made our Service Team laugh.
I recently came across an IDC research paper about the main influencing factors for a business when choosing an online backup solution. The results where interesting, but not surprising.
According to the research, the most important feature businesses consider before buying an online backup solution is price. Of course, this makes complete sense - I know few people that make purchase decisions without considering the cost of something before they buy it. We do it with cars, houses, holidays, always looking at the monetary impact first before we buy…
The online backup industry has recently seen a massive influx of cheap low-end providers into the marketplace. The relatively low start-up and operational costs of a low-end online backup provider mean that there is now a wide choice of online backup companies available. Many of these firms are based in the US and some offer unlimited storage space for only $10.00 a year. At those prices, given the tightening belt, it is tempting.
With less money to go round, companies need to consider carefully all outgoings. It is no wonder then that many are looking for ways to save cash by making significant tradeoffs in operational expenditure. Inside organisations at the moment there is strong focus on minimising ‘non-essential’ costs and that means a search for cheaper alternatives…
Not all Storage-as-a-Service offerings are created equal. Here is a cautionary tale.
Carbonite, an online backup company focused on protecting PCs and servers in the SOHO/SMB markets, filed lawsuits against its storage vendor and a system integrator recently after allegedly losing data belonging to over 7,500 customers. Click here for more information.There have been some other well-publicized failures associated with Software or Storage-as-a-Service offerings…
I am thinking of doing an experiment inspired by a customer of ours. Every day she travelled home from work on the tube with a brace of Hard Drives removed from the company servers to take and store at home. She used to whine about the sheer weight of them, but that was about it.
That was until a student on the tube one day dropped their school bag and out fell their pencil case and its contents…
