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Online backup service providers target small to medium sized businesses that do not have the resources or adequate backup schedules. However, due to any natural calamity or physical damage there is a strong chance that an on-site backup would be destroyed. To avoid risks and protect company data it is recommended to move to online backups.

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Most organizations are dependent on their staff to perform backups on a central server located in the office. In most situations the backups are made at regular intervals and copied to CDs or external hard drives. Using an online backup service will enable you to leverage the benefits of disk-to-disk backup avoiding the complexity of hardware or software installation.

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In case you have multiple users, frequent data changes, etc you should consider a regular backup to avoid loss of important data. It will be an expensive event to recreate all the data. Hardware can have a long life but human error can create a lot of issues when you have important files. Even after eighty five percent of users are concerned about losing important information due to a number of reason, only one is four regularly creates a backup. In fact, out of every five PCs only two are backed up properly and are able to access their data.

If you sign up with a reliable online backup service provider you can avoid the misfortune of data loss and transfer your files to a safe and secure storage centre.

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At WorldBackups, we’ve certainly found that the convenience and security of online backups appeal to SMEs because they provide guaranteed automatic backups and store data safely off-site, but with almost everyone using desktop and laptop PCs, we’re also finding online backups appealing to every size of organisation.

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Online backup is naturally attractive to SMEs with limited IT staff and resources because it gives them the high level of security provided by automation (no danger in forgetting a backup), remote storage (vital protection against fire or theft) and the facility to restore data fast (minimal business interruption).

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But a report by Forrester (Market Overview: Backup Software-As-A-Service) confirms WorldBackups’ experience that larger organisations are looking to use online backup, not to replace their data centres, but to back up corporate PCs or small servers at remote offices. Enterprises with smaller data capacities could also back up PCs and critical servers.

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Many statistics are bandied about regarding the impact of data loss on a business, although so few are referenced, probably because most businesses do not want to talk openly about weaknesses in their processes or how their critical business processes have been affected by losing data.

Ultimately, every business is at risk from data loss.

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A business relies on customer data, sales and financial information to thrive and the longer it cannot access these, the greater the threat to its survival. This applies to a sole trader as much as to a partnership, family business or larger enterprise and WorldBackups’ clients come from all these groups.

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Online backup can provide the same reassurance and security to every size of business in every sector that uses one or more PCs or laptops.

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How many businesses don’t use a PC?

1. You can password protect your backups with most third party backup applications. Most SYS Admins however choose not to because they see no reason to do so or they are worried they might forget the password.

2. So backup tapes will never fall into the wrong hands? What are the wrong hands? External criminals or internal nuisances trying to look at the wages spreadsheet?

3. Is the right person tasked with taking the backup tapes off-site? Is the odd tape left at home or in his car? Would you be as easy going if your company’s data was floating around on unencrypted DVDs or USB sticks?

4. Do tapes always work? Are the backup logs checked every day? Do you perform test restores? What happens during holidays and weekends?

5. How many versions can you keep of your data? Online backups from WorldBackups.net will store your revisions for as long as you want.

Now let’s look at the features and benefits of online backups from WorldBackups.net

Automation

1. With online backups from WorldBackups.net you don’t have to worry about tape changes.

2. You can run jobs whenever you like, safe in the knowledge you don’t have to be around to change tapes for the nightly backup. With one simple non-reversible password, your data is secure.

Costs. Tapes versus WorldBackups.net

Tape - You have the outlay of tapes, drives and software. A typical small biz solution for 10 users with 50GB of data would cost approx. £1,500 to £2,000 for the software, drive and 30 tapes.

WorldBackups.net - An online 50GB backup would compress to approx. 20GB and cost a lot less - click for prices. Plus you won’t ever have to upgrade your backup solution again because our software is free.

Security

All WorldBackups.net backups can be encrypted (not even we can access your data without the password).

Durable backups

Your data will be stored in a minimum of two facilities.

Simplicity

WorldBackups backs up all versions of Windows, Exchange and SQL using wizards.