The online backup market is now
littered with a host of "low cost", consumer-level alternatives.
But if you have
valuable business data, you can't afford to protect it with a cut-rate online
service designed to store personal music files and photos.
4 Pillars of Business-Class Backup
Discover
below why these areas are so critical, and why Remote Data Backups excels where
cheap "data storage" options fail.
Is the service
reliable enough to protect critical business data, and proven over
time?
Online backups involve a complex process of incremental file
parts, compression, encpryption, transfer and storage redundancy. Any flaws in
the system can instantly wipe out your data.
Most consumer-level backup services
include an important, but often overlooked, User Agreement clause stating that
their service should not be used for "critical business data". Can there be
a bigger RED FLAG?
If you're trying out other services,
Google "[X-Company] Backup Reviews" and get real customers' experiences and
insights, so you know what you're in for. Also, try to run an initial backup
and practice restore, and call for support.
Most are just a few years old or less,
meaning clients are still discovering "bugs" that can compromise the integrity
of their data.
Most cheap online backups have strict
daily transfer limits or extreme bottlenecks, making nightly backups nearly
impossible to complete, much less your initial upload.
What good is a backup
service without 100% reliable restores?
Consumer-class services put file restores
requests in a "waiting" cue, often days later.
Their bandwidth is throttled so much that
restore transfers can take days, even for just a few files.
We've heard of countless restore problems
from clients and partners trying other services, including file corruption,
missing versions, and unretrievable files.
With RDB, you can restore files
immediately via the agent or the Web, 24/7, and we've NEVER lost backed up
files.
Our bandwidth is unlimited on redundant
fiber optic backbones, so transfers go as fast as your bandwidth allows.
Our patented delta-block incremental,
Duplicate File Recognition and compression technologies further optimize your
transfer times.
3)
FREE 24/7 Expert Phone
Support
No
Is Expert Phone
Support Readily Available? How much does downtime cost you?
Most low-cost services have little or no
support, meaning when you'll be on your own when it matters most. If you can
find a phone number on their website, you may be stuck interminably on-hold, in
endless phone trees, or speaking with someone you can't understand, or pay per
minute. More likely, you'll have to wait (possibly days) for an unintellible
email reply.
Our friendly US-based experts are always
here to help you, 24/7. We take pride in delivering fast, proactive solutions
that work for you.
4)
Viable Business
Model
No
Online
backups are not a commodity. You get what you pay for.
Any backup service that practically gives
it away invariably sacrifices critical components that make up an offsite
backup system – like bandwidth, reliability and support – for sheer
numbers.
When you use a service dictated by
venture capital, you can bet rates will increase whenever they reach a certain
level of clients, complaints of poor service, or debt.
RDB is independently owned and debt-free.
We answer to only our clients and partners. And our rates have never gone up in
over 10 years.
Bottom line: Data is the lifeblood
of your business.
Remote Data Backups rock-solid, business-class
solution has been protecting ecstatic business clients for over a decade. Trust
the experts, not some new venture capital experiment.
