The concept of the “paperless office” is one that comes with substantial benefits to any manner of business. Businesses save money, increase productivity, save space, and minimize environmental impact by transitioning to primarily computerized data storage. The other side of this coin, however, is that IT infrastructure becomes increasingly important and adequate backup is nothing less than essential.
Most small-medium business environments employ a back up of some kind — whether that be to DVD, tapes, external hard drives, or to a backup device. These backup methods are thoroughly successful at what they do: back up your data in case of a server crash. However, in a modern paperless office, there are other principal concerns: What happens if my office is robbed, or catches on fire? In this case it is likely that your existing storage mechanism is either destroyed or stolen, rendering your backup solution ineffective and potentially leaving your business in runes.
Offsite backup is a backup system designed specifically to avoid this pitfall of traditional backups, ensuring that even if your main office is destroyed, robbed, or otherwise unavailable, your data is secure in an off site facility, waiting for you to resume your business.
Typical offsite backup solutions are billed at a per gigabyte stored rate. This means that you pay for only what your business. 1 gigabyte is about 20,000 average length documents, roughly 100,000 emails, 10 hours of video, or 50 hours of audio.
