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Why Should I Outsource My Backups?

Written by Save And Secure
Thursday, 25 August 2005
Click here for a free trial of our Online Data Backup software! Outsource tasks and save yourself £’000s a year. If you caught a disease would you ignore it or would you find the time to do something about it? The same question can be applied to your business. Most people are fully aware they should look at their business closely from time to time to improve performance and save time and money, yet make excuses for not be able to find the time. Many businesses fail unnecessarily and it does not need to be yours. Let’s take a simple day-to-day business process as an example….your data backup. You may feel that you have it handled using a Zip drive, a CD-ROM, DAT etc, you may backup once a night rotating backup tapes, duplicating them and taking one offsite as you have always done. You may not do regular backups at all and hence are very exposed to crashes, viruses, theft, fire etc. Have you ever asked yourself why does my business undertake its own data backups, what benefits does it bring and is there a better way of doing it? Can someone else do it for me, cheaper and safer? The answer is yes they probably can. If they can, then let them and save yourself the time and money of your current backup method and reinvest that into your business. Backup is one of a number of business processes that given the advent of the Internet can easily and inexpensively be outsourced. Let’s look a little further at the cost of your data backup to highlight my point. Do you know how much time and money it costs you and your business to backup your data using ZIP, CD-ROM and DAT drives? The answer is most cases is no. The example below is a typical cost to small business and could be you applicable to you. It includes backup time per day, cost of hardware, software, ongoing maintenance and upgrades: - 15 mins per day to backup @ 260 working days a year = 8 working days per year - 8 days per year to backup @ £200 per day (your wage) = £1600 per year - Cost of hardware, tapes, maintenance etc. = approx. £400 per year 8 Days a year It seems incredible that to backup your data efficiently you need to spend about 8 days per year and about £2000. When you break your business down into smaller day-to-day processes what other costly tasks, such as data backup, can you find that could be undertaken on your behalf by a specialist business more effectively and less expensively? As a starting point to saving £’000’s try outsourcing your backup now? Outsourcing onsite data backup is a classic example of a business process that a professional organisation can manage on your behalf from as little as 27p per day. No capital outlay, no ongoing maintenance or management, just a small monthly charge. The Application Service Providers (ASP) model is an easy way to utilise the Internet to have services delivered to you quickly and inexpensively. An ASP allows you to access a best practice service through your existing Internet connection for a monthly fee. When companies outsource their backup to online data backup specialists www.saveandesecure.com they can save over 70% of their ongoing backup costs and dispose of one daily process freeing up their time to concentrate on developing their business. You can start saving yourself time and money today by using a reputable online data backup company such as www.saveandsecure.com. Save And Secure can reduce your backup costs to as little as £99.95 per year and after a 10 min set-up process, human intervention is virtually eliminated. The service replaces traditional onsite hardware backup systems with an award winning software tool which is downloadable from the Internet. It is very simple to set-up and you choose when you want the service to backup for you, e.g. nightly. Value Added Save And Secure Online Backup is a value-added service that substitutes having to backup your data with an automated service using your existing Internet connection. Your data is then backed up to mirrored offsite Save And Secure data centres. All data is fully encrypted before sending, compressed for speed and stored encrypted. After your first backup, which takes the longest, average backup times are a few minutes per day as Save And Secure only backups the new files and changes to existing files. This means that you can use a normal telephone line efficiently. If you loose data then it is safe and sound at the Save And Secure data centre for you to restore 24x7x365. So why do it yourself? Save time and money and consider outsourcing selected business processes…. When considering outsourcing, finding the initial time to analyse your business processes to see what may or may not fit the outsource model is often one of the main reasons why people carry on as before. Find the time, step back from the coalface, have a proper look at what you are doing and investigate whether it will be better for you to undertake the task or someone else. The benefits further down the line could be significant. We have already seen you how you can save thousands using www.clunkclick.net to backup your data. Imagine what else is out there to help your business? If you look at your business and can outsource 2 or 3 processes, then the accumulative knock on effects could be significant. It is often the simple ideas such as outsourcing data backup that can provide you with additional time and money to concentrate on growing your business. 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Last Updated ( Friday, 04 November 2005 )