Remote Online Backup of Data Can be Key to Survival

Karen Nitkin
Special to The Daily Record
September 25, 2009

Simon Tutt, the president of DP Solutions, says companies often approach his firm for disaster recovery services only after they’ve been through an emergency. “Either they’ve experienced an emergency and realized they weren’t prepared, or they know someone who has,” he said.

But all companies, even ones as small as a single person working on a single laptop, need to protect the information and infrastructure on their computers from physical and virtual shutdowns. And companies that provide remote backup services offer a range of options to meet those requirements.

The idea is simple: By locating copies of your information somewhere else, you have insurance in the event that you can’t access your own files, whether because of fires or floods, or computer hardware malfunctions or viruses.

As Tutt noted, remote backup can be the difference between a company that …

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