Disadvantages with tape backups

Most small and medium size businesses follow a traditional tape Backup process whereby core business information and data is backed up to tape. Often, tapes are faulty, damaged or simply too old to be a reliable backup of your business information, rendering them totally useless.

In many cases, these tapes are actually stored on-site or are taken to an alternative location, such as an employee’s home, with very little security or protection. If the office or employees home was damaged by water, fire or theft, your corporate information and data will be lost and this can completely cripple your business.

Secure and efficient Online backups

Using our online backup service you no longer need to worry about faulty tapes and equipment, you do not need to interact with the system at all. You are not reliant on employees changing tapes every morning and ensuring that the correct tape is inserted into the tape drive. You will never need to upgrade your equipment or purchase any tapes again.

An online backup solution uses your internet connection, and an encrypted data stream to transfer your business data to a data centre.

With our solution you can 'set and forget' your backups, tell us what you want to backup and how long you would like to retain the information for and we can configure our systems to backup the data. You will be provided with a daily email informing you what data has been backed up.

All data pushed to our partners data centre is encrypted and secure, your data is also replicated between the data centres.

Sphere IT offer a range of Online Backup options which will suit your business requirements. Prices can be found on our Online Backups section.