Companies need to ensure that their precious data is kept safe and sound away from the risk of anything happening to it. The amount of valuable information stored on computers which are prone to failure is staggering, especially in today’s society. There exists on the average hard drive at a work place a treasure trove of valuable information including sensitive client information, potential contracts before they are signed and bank account and personal details of thousands of people. All of these need to be kept secure, and the best way to do that is via an offshore data center. There are countless reasons to use something such as this: here are just the best five.
Habit forces people to back up information
Those thousands of documents which sit on servers in offices every day are hugely important to a business. Without them, it would not function correctly, if at all. However, people do not seem to consider that in order to ensure that they are not left high and dry without their years of information, they need to take active steps to ensure a back up of all of it is kept. Moving storage offshore would help this happen, because it needs to be updated remotely, meaning there would be a regular nightly backup of all the information every day.
Protecting against natural disasters
Everyone likes to think that their homes and work places are safe. Sadly, the universe does not work in that way. Freak accidents happen all the time, and they can leave people’s information in tatters. If a fire or a flood can destroy bricks and mortar, it can certainly destroy a hard disk. Waterlogged electrical equipment has a tendency not to work in the future.
Theft protection
Companies install high security alarm systems to try and stop any break ins from happening. Yet they still go. It may be an opportunistic smash and grab robbery, or it may be more organized by a competing company looking to steal someone’s secrets. By having information stores away from the main site, this problem is avoided.
Easy access in remote areas
When something is stored on a hard drive in the office, people tend to get complacent. They think that because when they are sitting at their desks important documents are always accessible, that they are accessible when they leave the office. This is not the case. People can go on business trips to far flung lands and arrive without the right information on their memory stick. Remote storage ensures that people can always access it through web systems.
Restoring files quickly
In the event that something does go wrong, being able to rely on offshore data storage to quickly restore the lost files to a system with the minimum of fuss is something that is vitally important. Every second that a business is left without its all important files, they are losing money and potential clients. They need to be able to get up and running again without any delay. Having all the files there to access at a remote site helps that tremendously.