Online, Offsite Backup
SCS offers various online, offsite backup solutions, all of which basically achieve the same thing: Backing up your data over the Internet to a secure offsite location.
Why Online backup?
Conventional backup methods (e.g. tape) are often not good enough:
- High failure rates during restoration
- Problematic backup will not be detected until restoration is performed
- High maintenance cost
- Fixed capacity per backup media makes backup job less flexible
- Prone to negligence induced problems, e.g. lost or misplaced media
Data loss makes your business suffer:
- Your business data goes hand-in-hand with your business operations. The loss or just temporary inaccessibility of this data may threaten your hard-earned business edge
- Loss of business data may ruin your company’s reputation or lead to expensive litigation
- Most importantly, it interrupts your business operation
Is it safe to perform backups via the Internet?
Absolutely. Your data is securely stored on 1 or more remote backup server(s) hosted by SCS’s partner company, using the same level of encryption employed by most multi-national banks. All of your data is encrypted and compressed before being uploaded and stored on our offsite servers using a secure SSL channel.
Encryption and decryption is only performed on the client’s machine with the user’s credentials, which are not transmitted during uploading downloading. Therefore, nobody can read the data except the user.
More Benefits
Secure and reliable:
Unlike conventional backup methods, your critical data is encrypted, compressed, and uploaded to a remote server hosted and managed by SCS and their partner company via Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) with enhanced security.
Everything is run automatically with no human intervention required (after initial setup). This eliminates all possibilities of negligence induced problems. This robust design guarantees an extremely high success rate of data restoration. SCS will monitor backups as well ensuring that there is no time where the data is unprotected.
Limited cost, Unlimited Protection:
Once the online backup software is deployed in your company, your invaluable data is protected from fire, vandalism, terrorist attacks, was, natural disasters, etc. While the cost of online backup is limited, the value of critical business data it protects is unlimited.
Versioning and Retention:
All our online backup solutions have some form of versioning, where previous versions of files are preserved for a certain length of time. We also offer data retention options where a copy of your data is kept for a longer period of time, out of the normal backup cycle. Virtually unlimited retention options are available, including the financial industry standard of 7 years.
Flexible Options:
SCS do not have an exclusive arrangement with any provider for backup services, meaning that we can choose which solution works best for the client. We currently partner with companies offering several different backup solutions.
