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Is Intronis Online Backup the Right Choice for Your Company?

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Itronis’ cloud-based data backup makes it easy to manage, store, access, and secure your data online.

Failing to back up your data leaves your company vulnerable to severe financial losses. Should you lose your data permanently, or fail to restore it at an acceptable speed, your employees will become less productive, your business operations will get derailed, and your customers will lose trust in you.

It’s important to choose the right backup solutions, as they don’t all perform equally well. One strong option comes from Intronis and their cloud-based data backup. There are a number of compelling reasons to go with Intronis for your company.

 

What are some of the benefits of using Intronis Online Backup?

  • Flexibility. You can adjust your Intronis Online Backup plan to fit your business needs, including the types of data you want to back up, where you want them backed up, and your data recovery goals. You have options for backing up your data both on the cloud and locally.
  • Security. Intronis Online Backup has powerful security features, including 256-bit encryption and highly protected facilities when you back up your data on the cloud. State-of-the-art security is critical for protecting your data from theft, tampering, and unauthorized exposure. If your organization works in any way with medical patient data, know that Intronis is compliant with HIPAA regulations.
  • Dependability. When businesses discover that their data backup measures have failed, it’s a horrifying experience. It often occurs in the aftermath of an IT disaster, when they seek to recover and restore lost data, only to find that their backups are corrupted or otherwise useless. Intronis backs up your data reliably in more than one location, so that even if one of their facilities gets disabled by some kind of outage, your data remains available elsewhere.
  • Reduced downtime. Being able to recover your data quickly is key to minimizing losses after an IT disaster. Earlier this year, an article from Information Week Network Computing estimated the costs that downtime extracts from businesses; companies in North America collectively lose hundreds of billions of dollars each year due to downtime. It’s important to note that smaller businesses are especially vulnerable, and can’t always recover from prolonged downtime and permanent loss of data. Whatever backup measures you use, you need to ensure that you can recover your data quickly, with a priority on the data that’s more critical for your business operations.
  • Useful for different environments. For example, Intronis supports Hyper-V and VMWare, making their backups applicable to virtual machines.
  • High-quality tech support. Their tech support is free and based in the US. They respond quickly and offer clear, effective guidance for any problems you may encounter.

What about alternatives to Intronis? A look at Carbonite

When choosing an online backup solution for their company, Carbonite comes up as an alternative to Intronis. But is it the better choice?

It’s generally better to choose Intronis over Carbonite. With Intronis, it’s easier to manage backups and restoration; centralized management gives you more control and a better idea of what’s going on. Backups tend to be slower on Carbonite, and in some circumstances they’re prone to data loss. Carbonite also doesn’t support network drives, and its sharing features are limited.

Intronis is a popular choice for managed service providers (MSPs) because of its reliability, high-quality security, ease of management, strong performance, and responsive tech support. For companies with a variety of data and high volumes of data, Intronis is the more suitable choice.

What will ultimately work best for you? Don’t hesitate to contact us for specific advice tailored to your company and its needs. Whatever backup solution you ultimately choose, it’s important that you have the option of backing up your data securely on the cloud. High-quality cloud-based backups ensure that you have off-site copies of your data that can get quickly restored should you suffer an IT disaster.

What Types of Data Should Be Backed Up?

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Learn how to keep the lock on your most important data.

Data back up is incredibly important. If you’re in business, no matter what you do, you probably already understand the importance of backing up your data. We could list all of the reasons to create backups, and everything that could go wrong if you don’t, but that’s been done before. Instead, let’s talk about which types of data really need to be backed up.

Before we dive in, it’s important to note that it’s really best to just back up everything. Data storage is incredibly easy, and it’s also very inexpensive. In many cases, the main expense comes in actually creating and maintaining the backup in the first place, while storing extra data costs little to nothing extra. Because of this, there really isn’t a reason not to back up everything, but there are still types of data that are more important. This is the data that should be stored in several places. It deserves extra focus, and is worth the extra money, if it does end up costing more to store. It’s also the data you should keep in mind as you design your disaster recovery plan. Here are a few types of data that it is the most important to back up.

Customer information

One of the most important things a company possesses is information about its customers. If you lose this information, especially contact information and other detailed information specific to them, you could have to rebuild the entire company from the ground up. Make absolutely sure that this data is safely backed up in multiple places, and with a reputable data backup company.

Employee records

Losing employee records would be almost as bad as losing your customers’ information. You’d have to renegotiate any salaries or benefits packages that aren’t currently stored in paper form. You’d also have to guess how long each employee had worked there. You’d have to complete stacks of paperwork, which would take a huge amount of resources, and you’d risk missing things. It would be a huge hassle to have to repopulate all of your employees’ information. Make sure you have it backed up.

Product plans and records

This is more important for some companies than others. If you provide a standard product or service, like napkins or cleaning, you probably don’t have much documentation that is necessary for your business to operate. On the other hand, most products are specific to the company that makes them. Whether it’s a slightly different design that you don’t want to change, or something ingenuous that no one else even knows how to make, you’ll definitely want to back up any paperwork you have about the design or recipe of your product.

Financial history

Although this may not be as important as the others, it’s definitely good to have records of your financial history. In addition to the fact that you’ll need this to appease the IRS and other governmental organizations, these records will help you analyze where you’ve been, and predict where you’re going.

Inventory records

This one is pretty simple to understand. If you lose your inventory records, you’ll have no choice but to recount your inventory. Although this is possible, and may not create any long-term problems, it will cost a lot of money and time, which will be in short supply after a disaster.

Current orders

Finally, consider how embarrassing it would be to have to ask your customers to replace their orders, especially if they’ve already paid for them. Make sure that all current orders, even if they’ve just come in, are backed up, just in case.

Looking for more information about backing up your company’s most important data? Contact us.