The Case for Off-Site Data Storage

21 Aug 2008

Backing up your data off-site, regardless of the storage system you use in-house, should be a best practice that both large and small companies follow, according to the head of the Levine Financial Group.

Up until recently, the Toronto-based insurance and wealth management firm was using a tape-based storage system as one of its primary data backup devices. The company has now turned to an online backup system for an added level of protection and piece of mind.

“We have two back-up systems that we continue to use; we have mirrored disks on our server and we have tapes that we take home at night,” Elliott Levine, director at Levine Financials, said. “But we didn’t think that was the right way to operate in the 21st century, so we looked for an off-site provider that could basically ask as a redundant system for us.”

To implement the system, Levine Financial hired Toronto-based storage provider Storagepipe Solutions after being impressed with …

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