Home > Cloud, Appliance, or Software? The Best Backup Solution for Your Organisation

Emerging technologies such as cloud computing, analytics, social media, and mobility are transforming businesses, helping companies lower costs, increase production outputs, and improve business processes and operations. In order to gain access to new markets and opportunities and stay ahead of the competition in today’s global business environment, companies must be responsive and reliable around the clock. This requires highly available networks and applications for business continuity.

As a result, businesses are asking more of their information systems—and creating more data—than ever before. If networks are not up and running, the impact to an organization’s bottom line through lost revenue, productivity losses, and delays can be devastating, especially if systems and data can’t be restored quickly.

Businesses must be able to recover from system loss or disaster in minutes, not hours or days, and from both physical and virtual environments. If you’re already on board with backup basics and are now searching for ways to simplify and automate your backup and recovery processes, you’re in luck.

Powerful backup and flexible deployment options, including enhanced software, backup appliances, and backup solutions in the cloud, offer flexibility and choice in how you manage backup, allowing you to deploy a modern infrastructure that best suits your IT requirements, business needs, and environment. But how do you know which backup strategy is right for your business?

Back up to the cloud

Customers can leverage backup and recovery directly from the cloud with an online backup and recovery service, a form of Software as a Service (SaaS). Like other SaaS applications, online backup is an alternative to an on-premise software application. In this instance, both the backup application and information storage reside off-site. This approach allows customers to replace expensive upfront investments in backup hardware, software, and personnel with an affordable monthly or yearly subscription-based service.

As an organization grows and uses more applications, backup can become complex, expensive, and challenging. Online backup lets a company leave it to the experts and is optimized to work over very limited bandwidth connections between corporate locations and the vendor’s data center. As such, it’s ideal for customers with one to two servers per site and for roaming users. Finally, security is a top criteria for buyers. Best of breed solutions delivered by leading vendors securely transmit and store data in enterprise-class data centers.

Source: Symantec

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