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Securing your Small Business Data Online

January 5, 2010

The importance of keeping back-ups can never be overstated. There are numerous factors outside of your control that could easily result in data loss for your company. With luck you will not be losing anything significant, but without a backup system in place you could easily lose all of your electronic customer records or important contact information.

There are some frightening statistics surrounding hard drive failure. It is believed that every year one in ten drives will fail with the financial cost for even simple data recovery by an expert to be very high for any small business.

Theft is also a leading cause of data loss. In the United States, 600,000 laptops are stolen every year. The FBI statistics suggest that 97% of stolen computers are never recovered. There are also a staggering 12,000 laptops lost in US airports every single week and two-thirds of these are never recovered.

The consequences of data loss can be huge. It is a very real possibility that a significant loss of data could actually do enough damage to put you out of business. Unfortunately, even if you take precautions, a massive disaster like fire or theft could even result in the loss of your backups.

Keeping an online backup with WinWeb ensures that your important files will still be safe, even if you suffer a disaster. Our customers get a massive 10GB of webspace (included in their subscription) on which to store their data, offering them security and peace of mind.

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