Off-site storage solutions are becoming more popular among large corporations who have a vested interest in keeping their IT systems safe.
In truth, no matter what size of enterprise you have, it is always advisable to keep your IT system as secure as possible from both a hardware and software point of view. There are a number of reasons for this.
Firstly, a company has a commercial interest in the data it stores. Critical operational and financial information is kept on servers. Losing or having to recover such information at any time for any given period of time could negatively impact a businesses’ profitability.
Secondly, firms have not only a moral obligation to their customers but a legal one. Customer data must be kept safe under the Data Protection Act 1998 and this policy extends to the secure housing of data.
Because of these two modern-day issues, the most responsible employers invest in remote IT support software; as well as off-site server storage solutions. Should the worst happen, at least they have a chance of recovering data; no matter where in the world it may be stored.
Imagine you are a business based in California – a state that is well known for lying on a tectonic boundary – and an earthquake occurs. If your servers are housed in the same office, or a nearby building, it is likely that they will be damaged during this natural disaster. Keeping your servers away from risky locations such as this whilst employing remote IT support systems could minimise the chances of data being physically destroyed forever.
An alternate scenario which is more likely to be prevalent today is the risk that hacking poses to a business. Should your systems be compromised, a remote backup of your information could also save hours of painstaking data re-collection. It will also mean that you can get back on your (business) feet as soon as possible.
There are even cost and efficiency incentives if you are interested in off-site server storage. Countries like Iceland for example, as well as being a peaceful and non-geographical vulnerable area, are naturally cooler places to store servers – therefore they use less energy.
The whole economy now has ambitions to become the world’s number one country for affordable, low-carbon emitting, off-site data storage.