WHY YOU NEED A REMOTE BACKUP PLAN. In today’s global market, where a computer virus born in Bangkok, Thailand can infect a computer station in Voorhees, New Jersey, the need for reliable data backup systems are more important then ever. A majority of companies already engage in some manner of critical data backup, but no system or strategy, regardless of how comprehensive or cleverly devised, can foresee and defend against all eventualities.

The Achilles’ heel for the majority of computer back-up systems and strategies is the fact that they are solely focused on threats of an electronic nature. As such, these systems and strategies oftentimes ignore the more physical dangers that exist outside the realm of cyberspace, such as floods, fire, or a brownout, which can leave your companies’ computers as nothing more than particularly heavy paperweights.

In order to address this problem, several companies are now offering a radical solution: Remote Backup. Onsite Computer Systems can help you set up your own remote backup system.

THE MOST CONVENIENT & EASY TO USE SYSTEM. Like most great ideas, the premise is simple. Participating clients have the ability to upload their critical databases and files to an offsite server, entirely secure and confidential, that can be accessed anywhere in the world, via the Internet. Here’s an example to illustrate the importance of Remote Backup. Many of you, undoubtedly, will be taking some much-deserved vacation time away from the office and you decide, this year, to head to London for a week. However, while you’re off enjoying the food and culture of a foreign locale, an electrical short in your office causes a five alarm fire that destroys the building and your company ends up losing everything – computers, records, reports, sales and inventory figures. Your company now faces a disaster of unparalleled proportions, but you had the foresight to utilize Remote Backup. Even though you’re in London, a thousand miles away from home, all you have to do is boot-up your laptop, dial-up to the Remote Backup server, and all of your company’s most precious records are yours to access. Instead of weeks, and even months, before your organization can function again, you’ve returned to business-as-usual in a matter of days.

SAVE MONEY TOO! Another important benefit of Remote Backup is the cost. Installing a conventional tape backup system can be a logistical and financial nightmare, with an initial expenditure that can reach upwards to $3,000, a figure that doesn’t even include labor and maintenance. Furthermore, in order to be truly effective, a tape backup system would require an offsite location, meaning finding a suitable locale and splitting your IT team’s focus between the office proper and the tape backup system site. With Onsite Computer Systems Remote Backup however, not only is your critical data safe and secure, but it’s just a mouse-click away, an extraordinary advantage that’s available at a reasonable monthly fee, which can be as low as $20 (depending on the amount of data to be backed-up). Onsite Computer Systems' Remote Backup offers a flexible, decentralized approach to the ultimate in network and data storage security, where your company’s critical data will be securely bundled in the cyberspace ether, immune from dangers of not only an electronic nature, but physical as well.