Many SME organisations still do not have a system to backup this critical business data or remove the backup files they do have from the business premises each night. Worryingly this equates to only a third of businesses storing their backups off site (rising even higher to a half with larger companies). Companies that have suffered a computer theft have also lost their backups as well because they were stored next to the stolen computers.

It takes approximately 20 days to re-enter in just 20Mb (megabyte) of sales and accounting data assuming you have the information to re-type. The cost of this alone is sometimes a serious threat to the survival of the business.

52% of UK Businesses had a malicious security incident last year.

23% said this it was a serious incident.

Viruses continue to be the single largest cause of security breaches for UK businesses.

 
Remote data backup allows you to protect your critical data against unforeseen catastrophic loss by backing up your data to secure offsite facilities.

Backup is critical for all businesses. Typically servers are backed up each night and this is good practice. However there is often critical information or data, which could be backed up more regularly, or data that is not being backed up at all, for example: -