By Ben Puzzuoli, Director Sales & Marketing at DataDepositBox
February 29, 2016

Data Deposit Box Cloud Backup Expert Tips: Old Vs. New Data Backup and Storage Technologies

The Old Technology
If you ask the IT admin, you will hear horrendous stories about sleepless nights and data tapes that always failed when one least wanted them to. You may even be escorted to data storage vaults that hold hundreds of back up tapes all neatly labeled, carefully protected against heat and dust, organized in silent rows in secure company vaults. Some of these tapes may never have been taken out of the vaults for years and many of them may be so old that the company no longer has the technology to read them. You will also be informed that the company believes that the tapes contain a gold mine of information and hence is willing to pay for holding on to them year after year. You will also be informed very cryptically that these tapes are the company’s insurance against disaster.

The New Technology
Cloud computing and cloud storage has changed the face of data vaulting and storage. The process has become simple, efficient and absolutely convenient. Unlike in the era of the tape and the removable disk drive, the IT admin no longer has to worry about disk capacity, backup windows or cost of data vaults.

The organization can subscribe to an cloud backup service, connects up with it, configures admin panels in accordance with organization’s access policies and transmits data over the Internet in encrypted formats for safe and secure storage offsite. The data can be backed up continuously or as per schedule, space can be requisitioned on the fly and payments can be made on per GB of usage. The greatest advantage is that data is streamed offsite immediately and data can be recovered from online repositories from anywhere, anytime and on any kind of hardware or software platforms from across the globe.

For those who are not comfortable with the thought of their entire mission-critical data being backed up into online, third party, servers or those who want to have additional backups of their data, these online service providers have additional offsite storage options.

Businesses can request their service provider to ship back the entire backup data to them in disk drives for quick restore to their vaults. The service provider software facilitates local backups on disk drives or local servers in addition to streaming the data online to the remote server.

As a result, IT admins today have the option of moving beyond traditional backup systems and archiving solutions and using the latest technology infrastructures to secure their organizations data with simplicity and ease.

Data Deposit Box is a globally trusted cloud backup company headquartered in Toronto, Canada, which provides simple, automatic, secure, encrypted, cloud backup and recovery solutions.

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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