Why You Should Consider Cloud Backup For Your Business in 2020

In modern society, data is the lifeblood of most small or mid-sized businesses (SMBs for short). However, the online backup of that data is typically one of the last aspects that business owners think of in terms of investment. Globally, throughout IT departments across various industries, the costs related to lost or stolen data is estimated to be over $1.8 billion per year in the form of lost customer information, invoices, financial information, and more.

Severe weather conditions, unreliable hosting services, hardware failures, and cyber attacks such as Ransomware are only a few of the many factors that attribute to data loss. Cloud backup is one of the most effective solutions for businesses to protect themselves against this. But who are we and why should you listen to us?

What do we do?

Save On IT focuses on providing cost-effective IT products, services, and solutions (such as Offsite Cloud Backup) for small businesses. Our philosophy is that expertise should be readily available, easy to understand, and cut out the middle man wherever possible. To this end, we offer IT services without frills and we teach clients how to perform a lot of the tasks themselves – providing self-service options is an important core aspect of what we do here at Save On IT to help businesses lower their IT costs.

We aim to equip business owners with the knowledge, skill, and technical ability so that they can make smarter IT decisions for their businesses including the important backing up their data offsite. Furthermore, each of our IT services and IT solutions (such as Off-site Cloud Backup) is tailor-made for every business, meaning that we can find a suitable option regardless of the financial status of the business. Finally, we also offer assistance to business owners who already may have in-house IT knowledge themselves, or with their employees, to better inform them of the different ways in which they can improve their current offsite server backups. Now you know who we are, let’s look at the benefits of cloud backups for businesses.

The primary benefits of the online backup

Backing up your business’ data through the cloud is simply the process of saving a copy of that data to a remote offsite server backup provider. If your business hosts any data on a server or computer onsite in your business, a cloud backup will protect you from losing precious data by ensuring a copy of your data exists off-site, in the cloud. 

There are also many advantages that cloud backups have compared to the more physical options – such as tapes or hard drives. These advantages include:

• Zero investment in infrastructure.

• Stress-free maintenance.

• Easier and Faster options for data recovery.

• Less investment in IT resources.

• More reliable than physical backups.

While this is not an exhaustive list, it certainly goes to prove just how invaluable cloud backups can be to modern business.

Zero Investment In Infrastructure

Business owners do not have to invest in their infrastructure in the forms of onsite servers or real-estate to host those servers. Offsite server backups give the same benefits without the heavy investment, making it a smart financial choice for small to mid-size businesses wanting to cut down the costs of protecting their data.

Stress-free maintenance and easy navigation

Business owners and operators do not have to worry about the maintenance of the equipment used for cloud backups, as this is taken care of by the backup service provider, ensuring a stress-free experience. Also, most cloud backup services feature a user-friendly interface that is easy to navigate and often have minimal learning curves to become proficient with.

Easier and Faster options for data recovery

Similar to the above, business owners will not need to worry about the process of recovering their data and the time investment it will take to do so. Instead, the majority of online backup services feature efficient systems in place that will enable a business to recover data incredibly quickly.

Less investment in IT resources

Similar to not having to invest in their infrastructure, business owners will generally have less investment in their own IT resources. This includes less need for IT personnel and computer storage- meaning you can invest in cheaper systems to get the same job done.  The money that you spend on an online backup solution can often pay itself back through the other money than you'll inevitably save.

More reliable than physical backups

While cloud backup providers use physical systems and servers to host and backup data, they often use far more advanced and expensive equipment than those typically found in businesses. In addition to this, the constant maintenance that they provide means they are more reliable and less prone to accidental damage than onsite systems. Having a remote offsite server backup means more reliable protection of your data against hardware failure.

What DOES this all mean?

Thanks to the versatility and affordability that a cloud backup offers, it is easy to analyze the true costs it will have for your business, the savings you can make on investing less on IT resources, and better understand the importance of protecting your data. The benefits that online backup services give businesses are far greater than the costs.

If you are interested in trying out cloud backup / online backup to backup your businesses data off-site. We offer a 15-Day FREE TRIAL of our affordable Offiste Cloud Backup service. If you like the service the cost is just $49/mo (Canadian - CAD) for up to 1TB of storage. You can learn more by visiting the Off Site Cloud Backup solution page by clicking the banner below.

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