Online data backup services have been described as an ideal solution for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

In an article in Processor, George Crump looks at the various advantages of cloud storage and how it could help SMEs.

He reminds readers that one of the attractive aspects of the technology is that, as well as being provided on a pay-as-you-go basis, it is also scalable so that the capacity grows as the business needs more online data backup services.

Mr Crump adds: “SME’s consider cloud storage as an area to store backups for disaster recovery.

“An internal backup infrastructure is needed, but for those SMEs that don’t have an ideal disaster recovery target, a cloud option could be ideal.”

FOUR German volunteers are counting the cost after laptop computers containing thousands of personal photos were stolen from their Bayswater home.

The full story can be read here:

It is an awful loss that these guys have had, however as a lesson, it shows that laptops are just as susceptable to dataloss, however it is caused.

At GBData we often hear of laptops being stolen, especially so while using the London underground.

To help mitigate the loss our advice is to install our backup software, which might not even cost you anymore, as you can install it on as many PC’s as you like, wether they be servers, desktops or laptops.

Carl.

In the modern business world, information is king, providing the means to undertake the business. So the question begs; why are some companies fundamentally lax with their information?

The full story can be read here:

Using GBData remote backup, you can rest assured that your data is not only protected, but also encrypted to 256Bit, which is a level higher than banks use.

This encryption also extends to the local copy that our software can also create.

There is no use in having high levels of access protection on your PC, only for all of this protection to be removed as soon as you create a local copy of your data to a removable hard drive for instance.

GBData software encrypts all of its data, so that its local copies are just as unreadable to unauthorised eyes, as the data transmitted to our servers.

Carl.

From 6 April 2010, businesses can face fines of up to £500,000* if they breach data protection laws.

There are no new rules laid down by this regulation, but penalties will be stiffened for contravention of existing rules,

so now is the time to review your company practices in relation to personal data protection legislation.

Further information can be found here:

GBData online backup software encrypts all data before it leaves your PC, so ensuring that you always conform to the data

protection act.  This also includes if you run a local copy backup using our software.

On a recent Gadget Show shown on Channel 5, Jon promoted backing up of your computer.

He showed various different online backup services, “competitors” of GBData if you will, and complained that even they lose data (see here for more information on the famous Carbonite data loss), which he showed.  Why am I therefore bringing this to your attention you may ask?

Well he finished by saying that IT specialists say that computer data needs to be held in 3 different places, else it is not held at all.  Well this is not news to GBData.  Our service offers the option of also backing up your data to an inexpensive external hard drive, as well as transfering your encrypted files safely offsite to the GBData servers.  This therefore allows your data to be in 3 places at once; where it was originally stored, on a local external hard drive; encrypted of course, and off site on our servers.

When evaluating backup methods keep this in mind, because few others offer this as an option.