Your most important asset - your corporate data - is far too valuable to entrust to cumbersome tape processes, unreliable backup media, and painstakingly slow recoveries. Small and medium-sized businesses are rapidly turning to online backup and recovery to displace older, manual, less reliable tape backup.

In addition, magnetic backup tape’s innate sensitivity contributes to high failure rates. Backup and recovery experts estimate that anywhere from 20 to 70 percent of tape restores fail.

Fragile tape, in contrast to disk, is physically delicate and easily compromised by environmental factors such as heat, humidity, and magnetic interference.

Tape backup is:

Time-consuming - backing up entire sets costs hours of productivity.

Platform-dependent - requiring specific software and hardware platforms for backup and restore.

Inefficient - becoming increasingly expensive and difficult to manage through the data lifecycle.

Data is Not Encrypted - tape backups are rarely encrypted, which means that precious enterprise data is even more at risk of being stolen.

Must Be Replaced Frequently –Tape cartridges must be replaced frequently (every 6-12 months).

Duplications- generally copied only once to one tape, which means that the data is at risk of being lost if the tape is damaged, lost, stolen etc.

Data Protection - Not Offsite is Not Alright. Unless they're taken offsite every night (which rarely happens regularly), tape drives fail to protect data against natural disasters (fire, flood, hurricane, tornado, lightning, solar flares and earthquakes), not to mention theft, disgruntled employees and sabotage.

Unsupported - Do you have a tape drive recovery service to call if your in-house backup solution fails? How much do they charge?

All of these problems can be eliminated by using our ITSguard to backup your data easily, securely and reliably every day automatically!  No more time and energy spent dealing with backup tapes.  ITSguard backs up your data to two offsite locations automatically around the clock. 

ITSguard Backup Manager can be used as Enterprise class software on the client LAN or WAN and implemented using our ‘Managed Back-end’ service.

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