By Ben Puzzuoli, Director Sales & Marketing at DataDepositBox
October 13, 2015 (SI-061)

Data Deposit Box Online Backup Expert Tips: How Do you Protect the Value Of your Business?

So you run a small to mid-sized business. How often do you stop and think about what’s most valuable to your business? With the arrival of the digital era, the information you use to run your business is now probably just as important as money. For a business, bits and bytes are not just space occupied on hard disks, but important assets, equal if not more valuable than the physical assets. And for the information to maintain its value, it must be available to those who need it and kept away from those who would misappropriate it.

Information stored in digital form is easy to copy, modify and replicate and that makes it easy to share with other people and other organizations. But, that also means it is at risk when it comes to controlling or destroying the data. The loss of data or even the loss of access to your data puts your business at risk. And now, our increasing reliance on digital information requires that every organization maintain a vigilant attitude towards data protection, backup and security. Like exercise, most of us know what’s good for us, but we don’t actually do it regularly.

Back up, protection and preservation of data are an increasing focus for small business owners. Many business owners don’t consider protecting their data until disaster strikes. For some it may just be a minor loss that serves as a good warning. But, for others it can mean the demise of their business. Many are now aware of best practices for data protection using backup storage with encryption technology to maintain confidentiality and taking regular data backups for easy recovery in the event of a loss.

Mobile devices, such as your average laptop, now have several hundred gigabytes of disc storage making it feasible to carry sizable amounts of data in files and databases. The advent of flash memory has contributed to increased data usage and large removable storage in the form of USB compatible drives capable of storing gigabytes of data in packages not much larger than a door key. These all make it easy to share with colleagues as well as outside business partners and customers. And for many small business owners, they serve as backup drives where some data can be recovered should it be corrupted or lost on a primary system.

Backing up your business data is not an option; it is a necessity. But, there is more to it than just having a backup file on a disc or other drive. A disaster recovery and business continuity plan is one of the most important ways to protect your business. This includes storing a duplicate of your most crucial and irreplaceable data off-site, using storage devices such as disks (DVDs), removable drives or an online backup service for cloud storage. Online backup and recovery services are widely available whether you have a small amount of data or terabytes of data.

The good news is that if you do a little planning for business continuity, you can recover quickly when disaster strikes, and that’s peace of mind.

About the Author: Ben Puzzuoli is Director of Sales & Marketing at DataDepositBox, a Toronto based cloud data backup service provider, which is listed at both the Toronto and Frankfurt Stock Exchanges. DataDepositBox technologies and solutions are currently used daily by over 200,000 customers, 1,000 resellers, 25 MSPs and private label partners for online backup and recovery, archiving, disaster readiness, secure file sharing and remote access. Visit DDB website here: www.DataDepositBox.com

 

 

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