Securing Valuable Data: Tips For Small Businesses

If you want your small business to move forward, it pays to back up. That's the advice from IT experts, who say that backing up data is critical to protecting a business.

Data loss can cause companies to lose spreadsheets, marketing material and, worse, customer information. The time and money spent recovering that lost data can be considerable and so can the cost to regain productivity.

So how often is data actually lost? More often than you might think. Recent survey findings from Verio-an online business and Web site services provider-showed that:

• Forty-five percent of respondents had no data recovery plan in place for information stored on their PCs.

• Seventy percent of small and home-based businesses reported that a single incident of data loss would be considered significant and costly.

• Fifty-three percent of respondents have already experienced an actual loss of information that was stored on a PC.

• Sixty-four percent indicated they had experienced data loss due to something as common as a hard drive crash.

Smart Solutions

The good news is that data loss is avoidable-and does not have to break the bank. For instance, affordable, reliable technologies such as Verio's PC Data Backup service for small businesses is designed to protect critical data and work documents stored on personal computers and laptops connected to the Internet. The Web-based system automatically backs up and restores business files and data in a secure offsite data facility, thereby safeguarding business' data while reducing the costs of recovering data in the event of a loss.

Verio PC Data Backup is simple to use, and users can actually view backups as they occur online. The technology can be a smart way for small businesses with limited resources to secure their data.

By: Stacey Moore

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For more information, visit www.verio.com/data-backup or call 1-888-VERIOPC. New services remove the barriers to data security.