Online Backup Services

As a business, you know the value of having insurance to replace your physical assets in cases of fire, earthquake, natural disasters or theft.  However, when it comes down to your electronic assets such as your Customer List, Accounts Receivables, Accounting, Tax, Human Resources, marketing collateral, or other mission critical documents and files, replacing these is not an option.  You need to have a plan and a method to recover the data you use every day.

“70% of small firms that experience a major data loss go out of business within a year.” – Score 2007

Onsite vs Online

Before, if a company wanted to protect their electronic assets, they had no choice but to spend a considerable amount of money on equipment and personnel by building out their own dedicated server room.  While this helped make protect companies against data loss from server or workstation crashes, it really didn’t solve the larger issue of natural disasters because the backup center was physically in the same location as the business.

Online backup securely stores your data away from your business at off-site data centers.  This means that your data is protected and available even if your server crashes or your business suffers some natural disaster.  In addition, because online backup is a Cloud Service, it is available as a monthly service fee which saves companies from spending money on expensive equipment and maintenance.

8 Cubed’s Local Online Disaster Recovery Services

One of the new challenges introduced with online backup is the speed and time it takes to perform the first backup.  For example, if you wanted to back-up 50 GB of data, assuming that you had a T1 line, it would take approximately 3.8 days!  And this is assuming that there are no timeouts, drops or reconnects.

Because 8 Cubed focuses on local clients in the Los Angeles and Orange County area, we offer a Local Online backup service.  Instead of performing the initial backup online, we come to your business and perform a local backup to one of our portable hard drives.   Then are our office, with our high speed internet connection, we perform the initial backup to the offsite server.  Using the 50 GB example above, this takes us a little under three hours.

Don’t wait till it’s too late.  Protect your electronic assets now and make sure to that your business stays in business even after a disaster.  Give us a call or contact us to get started with 8 Cubed’s easy, secure and local Disaster Recovery Service