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Not all offsite backup services (and there’re hundreds) are the same. Whether in terms of the price, service guarantees, features or quality, these services differ a lot from each other i.e. some are better than the rest; that’s true for all kinds of services and products available in any part of the world.
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Pointers for Choosing the Best Offsite Backup Provider • http://www.apixel.com.sg/
Before you decide to roll offsite backup application software on all your production systems, make it a point to test its reliability. Yes, every software vendor or IT company is going to make promises including seamless Operating System integration, easy to configure automated offsite backups, compliance to industry benchmarks and so on. Test the Application before Making a Decision
Better Flat Fees Are Usually It’s advisable to choose offsite backup service providers, after consulting and IT Solutions Company of course, that charges flat fees against well defined storage limits. Whether you require just about 200MB storage space or you need 100GBs, make it a point to go for a well defined storage plan for offsite backup instead of those involving per MB or per GB fees; budgeting ‘the total cost of backups’ will thus be much easier.
Reporting Tools It’s a good thing to be skeptical when you’re using various IT systems and applications. Merely assuming a system to be taking automated backups at an offsite location is not enough. You need to choose an offsite backup solution that comes pre-equipped with ‘stellar’ reporting tools and mechanisms. For example, you should be able to know everything about the time last 20 backups took place, the amount of data and list of files back up and whether there were any backup operation failures or warnings generated.
Easy to Use Although IT solution companies that help businesses like yours to have offsite backup software configured really well, it’s important that the offsite backup solution chosen is really easy to use. Consider making the best use of trial period before you take a final call on this matter. Find out if your employees are really comfortable working with the application at your end.
Quick and Hassle Free Recovery An offsite backup solution is no good if it doesn’t have 1-2-3 simple steps for quick data recovery. Whether you’ve got an in-house IT guy looking after various systems and software or a partner organization providing round the clock IT support, having a quick response backup solution would help ensure minimum down time. Company operations too, will not be affected by accidental file deletion, hard drive crash or OS malfunctions.
4 Ways SMEs can Improve Security by Using Cloud Services Cloud services have usually been considered unsafe by small businesses as it involves handing over all critical data to a third party. This reputation of course is unfounded and misleading. Not only are cloud services financially viable but they are also safer when it comes to data security. It is one of the main reasons why SMEs in Singapore are now choosing cloud solutions with the help of IT support and consultancy companies like us.
Outsource All Security Concerns to the Cloud Cloud services can provide two options to SMEs; infrastructure-as-a-service and software-as-a-service. Although outsourcing just the infrastructure and using your own software gives you more flexibility, it is much better to use the software option because that means that all security concerns will be handled by the cloud service provider.
Clear All Doubts before Signing On with a Cloud Provider It is important to interrogate the cloud provider about all the services they provide and clear all the doubts that you have about the security of your data. Not only will this clearly define what responsibilities the cloud provider has but it will also let you judge the quality of the service provided. A provider who knows what he’s doing will be able to give clear and concise answers to all your questions.
Web Security and Email Services should also be outsourced to the Cloud Even the basic services of email, web hosting, file sharing and web security should be outsourced to the cloud. Cloud solutions providers have great infrastructure to handle all these services. They can provide you with antivirus and anti spam services for email and also provide proxy server services to stop your employees from going on to harmful sites and infecting their devices.
Use Cloud Services for Backups after Due Consideration Cloud services can be used for backups and one of the biggest advantages, aside from better infrastructure and dedicated personnel, is that the backup will be stored off-premise and so will be protected against any local calamity such as fire. One disadvantage can be that with a lot of data being generated, backing up and retrieval can take a very long time. The decision should be based on the particular needs of each SME.
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