Many businesses back up their data to external hard drives, CDs, tapes and USBs.  This horrifies many IT experts who are acutely aware of the risks that such methods pose.  In a recent study, the Home Office Computing Magazine reported that 77% of companies who test their tape backups have found failures.

Such failures can prove to be catastrophic.  Not only can data restoration be expensive, the time expended to resume operations will prove fatal to many businesses.  93% of businesses that lost data for 10 days or more, filed for bankruptcy within a year.  Many statistics illustrate the risk-laden gamble that is involved when organisations rely on ineffective  storage.  The risk emanates from the fragile nature of such devices, which are inevitably subject to degradation.

What is the solution?

A more cost effective and consistent  method  of protecting data is utilising  a software service which automatically backs up selected company data offsite and is monitored externally by experts.  Piermont Computer Maintenance (PCM) is a Leeds IT firm which specialises in Remote Data Backup.  Their service has averted crisis in situations that otherwise would have been disastrous for the businesses involved.  A local document management company suffered the failure of a hard drive.  The Managing Director estimated that the cost of data retrieval would have escalated to around £10,000 in an incident that he is not sure that his business could have recovered from, had they not been using the PCM Remote Data Backup service.

The small cost of professional backup pales into insignificance when compared with the drama of crucial data loss.  For more information please consult www.pcmbu.eu.

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