The SaaS Way: Backup and Recovery as a Service
Digital information has become critical assets for every Small Business and Individuals. And improving data availability, recovery and storage utilization are among the top concerns of most small businesses. However, businesses are often challenged with limited resources and time to handle the rapidly increasing amounts of data being created. This often leads to increased data security risks, more downtime and less regulatory compliance. Thankfully, the advent of "Software as a Service" is opening small and medium-sized businesses up to a whole new level of IT services that are affordable and easy to manage.
Data Keeps Increasing While growth of a business is a positive sign of success, it also means there are more to protect... and more to lose. According to the IDC Worldwide Data Protection and Recovery Software 2007-2011 Forecast, "external disk storage capacity, which will increase on average by 50% annually, will require a corresponding data protection capacity." Data growth means businesses must seek out ways to improve their IT infrastructure and recovery processes, or they run the following risks:
- Inability to retrieve data in the event of a disaster
- Non-compliance by not retaining data that is secured for a specified amount of time
- Exposure to hardware failure
- Exposure to business outages
Choosing Software as a Service - SaaS Software as a service (SaaS) offerings have emerged as a way for businesses to enjoy vital IT services in an on-demand fashion. SaaS offerings are hosted by the vendor, and leverage the Web to deliver a service that is priced on a subscription basis. With SaaS, there is no upfront investment, and businesses enjoy improved reliability and lower staff support requirements. Widely known SaaS offerings include ADP for payroll services and Salesforce.com for customer relationship management solutions. New SaaS solutions are extending to the IT infrastructure, going beyond applications to offer complete IT infrastructure protection including backup and recovery services. Handling data is challenging and fraught with risk, and concerns about service reliability, data security, and recovery constantly loom in the minds of IT managers. Vaulten recognizes that businesses often require enterprise-class technology but don't have the resources or capital to address enterprise complexity. That is why Vaulten has developed SaaS offerings for data backup, recovery and storage that are managed, maintained, and upgraded by Vaulten and IBM.
Vaulten Online Backup Vaulten Online Backup has been designed especially for businesses and individuals and is charged on a pay-as-you-go basis – which means you pay only for the services and capacity used.
Vaulten SaaS Backup provides reliable, secure and automated online backup and restoration of critical data for small and medium-sized businesses and consumers. It addresses the data protection challenges experienced by businesses that do not currently have a backup solution or that prefer to outsource backup responsibilities. In addition, the service can extend an existing online backup strategy; all in the SaaS way. Vaulten Online Backup is accessible from anywhere and offers always-on protection, version history and various recovery options.
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