This is a question I am getting asked more and more frequently. With cloud services now well established, businesses are now planning which services to embrace and when to jump on board. One such service is online backup, but how secure is your data with an online backup provider?

Let's start by looking at a few basic truths. Data centres are purpose-built facilities designed to host company and consumer data safely and securely. An average server in a commercial office sits behind a mid-range...
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No you don't. Not anymore. With cloud-based services becoming more and more mainstream, and what with up to 20Mb broadband you really don't need an inhouse server for your small business. Let's look at a few quick reasons why:

1) Zero advantage to having an inhouse Exchange Server
In fact I'd go as far as to say you're at a disadvtange if you have an in-house Exchange server. In-house servers are more expensive to buy and maintain than hosted services, they aren't any faster and you still have ...
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... you plan to fail.

Yes, we all know these famous words but what does this mean in today's business world? From an IT perspective, ensuring you have a Disaster Recover Plan and are taking regular backups of your data are essentials.

Costs for backing up data online are continually dropping and the benefits when compared with tradtional tape drives are numerous:

• No more expensive drive to install (and configure) in your server.
• No more daily tape backups and remembering to take them home every d...

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