As organizations move away from paper in favor of electronic storage mechanisms, they begin to realize just how important electronic data is to the sustainability of their business. Over the past decade, cloud backup, recovery, and restore (BURR) options have become both a cost-effective and reliable solution for organizations of any size. Out are the dated tape backup solutions and in are the disk-to-disk-to-cloud solutions, but many are asking what are the advantages of moving backups to the cloud?
Lower Cost of Ownership
BURR takes advantage of existing infrastructure, eliminating the need to purchase expensive tape based equipment. The software integrates with existing IT infrastructure and securely transmits encrypted backup data to offsite data vaults, decreasing the total cost of ownership and eliminating the need to revamp your backup solution every few years due to technology changes.
Improved Reliability and Speed of Recovery
Having a backup system in place is meaningless without a rapid and reliable method of recovering and restoring data. Since all of the data is stored online, a cloud BURR system instantaneously restores your data, whether one file or an entire server.
More Secured Method of Transfer
All files are encrypted before they are sent and remain encrypted while stored on the off-site vault. The encryption key is generated and stored at the customer site only, ensuring your data is always safe from prying eyes.
Reduced Operating and Administrative Costs
Once the backup jobs are created and the schedule is set, everything else happens automatically and transparently. This “set it and forget it” approach leaves your IT staff with little operational or administrative management for backups.
Smarter Use of IT Resources
Because the backup software is maintained and managed by your Service Provider, your IT staff is left to focus on more strategic initiatives within your organization. Furthermore, the built-in scalability evolves as your business environment grows and changes.
Stronger Compliance Safeguard’s
Although your organization ultimately assumes the liability for your backup data, we as your Solution Provider are providing a much more robust solution compared to tape backup. Your data is not only stored locally, it is replicated to our data centers, giving you the ultimate in redundancy for any failure and restore operation.
Eliminates the Shortcomings of Tape Backup
Tape backup solutions are costly, vulnerable to obsolescence, can be damaged during transport off-site, and are often very slow during a restore process. Our solution uses online redundant arrays of inexpensive disk which are common in all modern computers; therefore, your data is safe during transport and storage, as well as speedy to recover.
Interested in more information?
Switching to a cloud backup solution is an important decision, but one that can put your mind at ease that your data is properly backed up and secure. Let our professional’s come in to give you a free analysis and show you how cloud backup can benefit your organization. Contact us today via the web, email, or phone 800-557-0663.
