Today's Data Loss Crisis
How remote backup and Internet storage can help
Current statistics report an average of one out of every 10 computer hard drives will crash within the year, with the costs of recovering lost data as high as $7,500 or higher. But with remote backup, even if your home or office is broken into or damaged by fire or other natural disaster, at least your data is safe and easily retrievable.
Data loss can occur in a number of ways: system failure, an electrical short or power surge, hacking by malicious malcontents, fire, flood or earthquake, human error (i.e. accidental erasure), dropping a computer, losing/misplacing your computer, or by theft (having your computer itself stolen). Statistics point to employees (especially embittered former employees) followed by outsourced workers as responsible for the largest percentage of data loss.
If you think you're too smart to lose your laptop, think again. A study released by Dell computers recently reported that an average of more than 12,000 laptops are lost at United States airports each week!
All of these are hardships that can be drastically minimized by securing all your precious data remotely using Internet storage for your remote backup needs.
The problem with tape backups – the preferred solution of the past (and of archaic, outdated businesses) – is that they can be accidentally destroyed too. But remote backup with Internet storage saves at least one copy of all your vital data on a secure and redundant server system. By digitizing your data and storing it with remote backup through Internet storage, you ensure that not one piece of precious information will ever get lost again.
If you think your company has your data protected, think again. On Oct. 11, 2009 a story came out about a division of Microsoft suffering a failure of some sort that resulted in the data loss of vital personnel information. If they'd used Internet storage remote backup, the failure would have been no big deal. But as it stands, this disaster not only affected Microsoft personnel but tens of thousands of T-Mobile customers using Sidekick devices.
The lesson from this cross-platform (that's PC and mobile) disaster is that you need to back up more than just the data on your PC system, but that on your mobile devices as well. Not to mention any important data you may have stored on a particular website.
One startling figure reported recently is that 94% of the 300 million people with broadband access are in danger of data loss because they lack some sort of backup system.
Whether you only use your PC for personal use, you have a home office, you're an employee at a company, or you own the company, taking charge of the protection of your precious data, and that of your company, is critical to long-term security and viability of the company. These days, the way to secure data and prevent data loss, preferred by leading-edge thinkers and organizations, is remote backup using Internet storage.
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