Online Backups

Backup solutions for businesses have changed significantly over the last number of years with the development of Cloud Computing Services. Online (off-site) backups are becoming ever more popular because they provide major advantages over the traditional tapes and external hard drives. Those advantages include:

• The removal of the need for labour-intensive human intervention saves your organisation time and increases your team’s productivity. Less work by your people also removes the risk of making mistakes in the use and handling of tapes and external hard drives.
• Data is offsite – stored away from your buildings so that, should a problem occur at your site, your data will still be safe.
• Restoring your data from offsite is fast – and this enables your organisation to recover rapidly after any incidents of data loss.
• Retention periods are much longer than those typically available from tape/hard drive backups.
• Your data is stored in a dedicated Data Centre that brings with it high security and availability.
• As your capacity requirements increase over time you can easily adapt your configuration – thereby continuing to avoid capital expenditure.

At BITS we offer online backup using Microsoft Azure. Azure Backup is a powerful yet simple backup solution that resides online on the cloud. It offers a rich set of capabilities that can be configured for your specific needs. For example you can easily specify the files, folders and machines to be backed up. You can also choose the frequency of such backups. Along with these options Azure Backup also offers minimal maintenance and cost-efficiency, easy recovery of data, and secure data protection.