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| Online data backup and recovery, or electronic vaulting, gives your company the ability to automatically backup information and move data to a remote center, ensuring that critical data is stored safely. According to research from TheInfoPro, close to a third of Fortune 1000 companies surveyed use a storage service provider for daily backup. | | |
| Typical costs: | - Online backup companies base their fees on the amount of data stored, typically ranging from 10 to more than 1,000 gigabytes (GB).
- MediaMax offers 25GB of free online storage and charges $4.95 a month for 100GB. Xdrive offers 5GB of free online storage, with 50GB costing $100 a year. Carbonite offers unlimited storage for $55 a year, and Mozy offers 2 GB of backup at no charge and unlimited storage for $4.95 a month.
What should be included: | - Solutions should be fully automated -- after setup, information should be encrypted before being transmitted to a data center, and should be easily retrievable.
- Data protection software should be easy to download and install.
- Information should be automatically backed up, 24 hours day.
Additional costs: | - With some providers, expect to pay more to store more than 5 or 25GB.
- If you require a backup of your files, and you can't wait for a download, Mozy can provide you with a DVD of your files shipped overnight for about $90.
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Article updated March 2007 |
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