If you are already using an online backup system, you will know that it has many advantages over your old tape-based system for backing up data. Any good backup system (such as our own DataSafe service) is secure, encrypted and mirrored to two locations. But you will also know that data levels and, because of this, costs, inevitably creep up. Your backups get bigger, take longer, use more bandwidth and cost more as time goes on.
You will also know that UK, European, and even US legislation now dicate that emails, electronic files and financial data have to remain accessible and available for several years – up to seven years after audit. This means that businesses risk legislative penalties if their archive files cannot be properly opened and restored as needed or on request.
This no longer needs to be the case. SITOC's archiving service allows you to have the best of both worlds. We take a snapshot of all data at any one time, encrypt it, and store it on a securely held USB drive. You can then choose to backup online only data from the last 12 or 9 months previous. Your backup costs are dictated by the amount of data on the platform. So, in one step, you can reduce backup costs by an average of 33%. Your data remain secure and recoverable.
Contact us for a free, no-obligation discussion of how our archiving service could benefit you
Further reading on data archiving from IT-Observer
Further reading on data protection ICO.gov.uk