Buyer’s Guide Checklist: Online Data Backup and Recovery Services

Dear Data-Diligent Reader,

We recently published a FREE WHITE PAPER entitled “Buyer’s Guide Checklist: Online Data Backup and Recovery Services“.  Following below in this blog is a quick synopsis of the Checklist of Considerations / Buyer’s Guide for choosing an online data backup and recovery solution for your business:

Company Stability and Track Record

• Years in business
• Publically-traded company
• Number of customers
• Amount of data under protection
• % Fortune 1000 customers
• Number of customer data recoveries performed

Complete Data Protection Process

• Continuous, Disk-Based Data Protection (CDP) – Protect data as it changes
• Offsite Protection – Accessible from anywhere – web enabled
• Integrated Archiving of Long Term Backups – Protects from virus, corruption and unexpected events
• Local Recovery Appliance – High speed local disk based restores

Reliable Data Protection

• Inherent Protection for Databases & Open Files – Exchange, SQL Server, Oracle, others
• End-to-end Security Including Encryption and Authentication
• Bandwidth Efficiency and Control
• Recovery Guarantee – SLA backing the recoverability of your data

Fast, Accurate Recovery

• Local Recovery Appliance – Restore at local network speeds
• Recover current data, not last night – Continuous Data Protection
• Granular Recovery – Many restorable images per day
• “Change Only Recovery” – Delta Restore – Huge performance improvement on recovery time

Fully Automated – “Hands-Free” Operation

• “Set-it-and-forget-it” capabilities – Managing error logs should not be your responsibility
• Web-based interface – Restore from anywhere, anytime with a browser
• Onsite devices must be “seamlessly integrated”

To learn more about our online Server and PC backup solutions, powered by Iron Mountain Digital, please contact us or visit www.DataMountain.com.

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Bob Chaput wrote this blog. Bob is president of Data Mountain LLC, a data security, online data backup and recovery, disaster recovery and data protection services firm. bob.chaput@datamountain.com (800) 704-3394. Follow Bob on Twitter: twitter.com/BobChaput