By Ben Puzzuoli, Director Sales & Marketing at DataDepositBox
June 29, 2015

DataDepositBox Online Data Backup Expert Tips: Advanced Features of Data Protection for Businesses

Data security is one of the advance features all business owners want from their cloud storage service providers, because such feature ensure business continuity, especially, in the face of diverse data breaches. The best data storage software should be able to provide at least 2,048-bit RSA encryption with 128-Bit key that is capable of encrypting any file. This form of security remains to be one of the best cloud storage security features for businesses. Well engineered data protection software normally comes with these basic security features that can be upgraded from basic to premium cloud backup services.

Data Backup security is always evolving, therefore, your data backup vendor must be able to provide periodic upgrades to ensure that such features meet new security challenges, including data thefts and spamwares.

Speed of Data Backup Matters
The average backup speed expected from an ideal cloud backup software can vary depending on the speed of the Internet connection, alongside several other factors, such as the default settings of the software. Some software can backup as much as 5GB of data within few hours. Searching for a lost file should take just few seconds on any ideal backup software. Rather than restore your files online, some backup software will send a hard drive copy containing your file for a token fee.

Backup Capabilities of Advanced Cloud Backup and Storage Software
Typical cloud backup software for any business enterprise will backup data on your PC desktop, settings, photos, and windows data. If you choose a continuous backup option, your data will be automatically stored in the background, without slowing down your computer operations (there is a progress bar on a corner of your PC that will indicate the progress being made as backup goes on).

While most data backup service providers will offer similar features in terms of storage capacities, you should keep in mind that no two service provider are the same, and the special services they render will determine their final prices. You can read reviews and/or consult knowledgeable IT companies before you settle for a service provider.

Servers for Backup Software
The most advanced cloud backup and storage vendor will collocate its servers at numerous data centres within the region they are located and also in a different continent. RAID techniques are normally deployed for server hosting services, and this RAID is installed on the servers disk to ensure that all burned-out hard drives will never carry your backup contents with them. For the transfer of your data to a remote server online, at least 128-Bit encryption security feature is deployed. Aside the first major backup of data that can take few hours to complete, ideal data protection software must provide an incremental backup of more than 20 MB data per minute (any backup software that fails to meet this minimum requirement may not be ideal for your business, provided that you have a qualified Internet connection).

Many data backup vendors may offer limited free data storage capacity, ranging from 3 GB to 10 GB for a limited period of time. Once you exceed this storage space, you can then sign up for a paid service, where you can enjoy unlimited storage space for a set amount of monthly fee. The storage space offered by data backup vendors should not be a primary factor in choosing them, you need to consider their data backup speed and security features, company strength, other technical features, and more.

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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