Wednesday 3rd July, 2013

With the evolution of Cloud computing, businesses have become increasingly reliant on computer systems, databases and other critical files, while simultaneously facing frequent online security threats.

According to the US based Plexus Business Solutions, the failure to back-up data regularly or well, is still prevalent. In fact, risk to our computers and critical data from crime, accidental damage or loss, or component failure are ever present.

The company highlights that, one third of computer owners have never backed up their computers, half back up their computers once a year or less, and less than 5% back up their computers once a day or more.

With a recent Google study telling us that a hard disk that’s a couple of years old has an 8% chance of failing in the next year, and studies in the US indicate that approximately one third of PC users have actually lost all of their files at one time due to events beyond their control, we all seem to be needlessly taking incredible risks with our business.

For those of us relying on unencrypted memory sticks, back-up tapes, CDs / DVDs, other types of physical tape media and drives it doesn’t take much imagination to think of the potential disaster that accidental loss, damage, or malfunction could cause. Coupled with a computer system failure, a computer back-up failure could be disasterous for a business.

Ragnar Percy-Bell, Plexus Business Solutions explains how many companies could easily avoid all this.

“An online remote backup is the simple, great, and very affordable solution. Your computer and database files are encrypted so that they are totally secure and are then sent via your normal Internet connection to a secure computer file storage system off-site. This means that whatever happens to your computers or your existing back-up or storage system you’re covered”.