Saved by SaaS: Data Backup via Software as a Service

By Esther Shein

Ta ta to tapes — if you’ve got the bandwidth

June 30, 2008 (Computerworld) The last thing a collision repair shop needs to worry about is a data storage crash. So when John Sweigart realized the software he’d been using to manage his business, The Body Shop, was no longer compatible with the way it was backing up data, he knew it was time for a different option.

The Garnet Valley, Pa.-based Body Shop, which has four locations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, has hundreds of records, including images kept on file for appraisers and insurers for at least a year. “It’s tons of information, and we’ve had occasions where the server’s crashed and we lost data,” says Sweigart. “We have paper files, but we still have to go back and recreate the electronic files.”

Since it has multiple pieces of software to back up and no internal IT staff, Sweigart decided to outsource that …

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