Cloud Backup
As technology advances, the importance of protecting sensitive data becomes increasingly critical. Cloud backup solutions are an excellent way to safeguard business data from any unforeseen events such as hardware failure, cyber-attacks, or natural disasters.
Cloud backups are included and configured for you in all our managed IT support agreements at no extra charge.
What is Cloud Backup?
Benefits of Cloud Backup
The importance of continuity planning
Standalone cloud backup services
What is Cloud Backup?
Cloud backup is a service that stores data remotely on an offsite server that can be accessed through the internet. Cloud backup is an excellent solution for businesses that need to protect critical data from loss due to hardware failure or disaster recovery scenarios.
Cloud backup services allow businesses to backup and store their data securely offsite, without the need for expensive on-premises backup solutions. In the event of data loss, businesses can quickly restore their data, ensuring minimal disruption to their operations.
Cloud backup services allow businesses to backup and store their data securely offsite, without the need for expensive on-premises backup solutions. In the event of data loss, businesses can quickly restore their data, ensuring minimal disruption to their operations.
Why is Cloud Backup Essential for Businesses?
Data loss due to hardware failure, cyber-attacks, or natural disasters can be catastrophic for businesses. Therefore, having a robust backup strategy in place is essential for any business. Cloud backup provides businesses with a secure, reliable, and cost-effective solution for protecting critical data against disaster. It eliminates the need for costly on-premises backup solutions and provides businesses with the flexibility to scale their backup requirements as their data needs grow.
Benefits of Cloud Backup
Automatic Backups
Cloud backup solutions automatically backup data on a scheduled basis, ensuring that data is always up to date and readily available for recovery.
Scalable
Cloud backup solutions are scalable, allowing businesses to increase or decrease their backup requirements as their data needs change.
Cost-Effective
Cloud backup eliminates the need for expensive on-premises backup solutions, reducing overall backup costs.
Remote Access
Cloud backup solutions allow businesses to access their data remotely from any location, providing flexibility for remote workforces.
Enhanced Security
Cloud backup solutions provide enhanced security features such as encryption and multi-factor authentication, ensuring that data is secure and protected.
Cloud backup management is included and configured as standard in our complete IT management and support service.
The importance of continuity planning
Following a data risk assessment and GAP analysis, every business should have a plan for how data will be recovered, and systems brought back online following an incident. As well as how the systems will be recovered, the plan should also describe the Recovery Time Objectives (the acceptable downtime), and Recovery Point Objectives (the frequency of data backups and its oldest copy, taking into account companies contractual obligations to its customers and the potential costs of loss of services.
The myth of secure cloud services
It is a common misconception that services hosted in the cloud are all backed up. Many are, but you should check with your cloud service provider as to what is included in their backup and recovery planning.
For example, Microsoft includes deleted item retention for Exchange Online and OneDrive of 14 and 30 days respectively. This is not a backup, and following a data risk assessment, an additional backup and recovery plan should be implemented.
For example, Microsoft includes deleted item retention for Exchange Online and OneDrive of 14 and 30 days respectively. This is not a backup, and following a data risk assessment, an additional backup and recovery plan should be implemented.
Data Backup Management
We can plan for, manage, and report on the backup of your desktops, laptops, servers and cloud services. Our backup management services are used independently by small businesses to alleviate the worry of data loss and fulfill your compliance requirements. Larger businesses use our backup management services to supplement their existing IT department and systems.
Data Backup Restoration
Following a disaster, we will assist in recovering your data to your own systems, or to our IT Disaster Recovery environment which your staff can use if your systems have failed.
Standalone cloud backup services
As well as backup planning, management and support we can also offer the following standalone services.
Please get in touch with us to discuss your requirements in detail as we may be able to offer cost-effective, more efficient or more suitable solutions to your needs.
Please get in touch with us to discuss your requirements in detail as we may be able to offer cost-effective, more efficient or more suitable solutions to your needs.
Desktop and Laptop backups
We can provide your workstations with a full offsite real-time data backup solution, with retention policies to fit your business continuity planning. Alternatively, if data is not supposed to reside on your workstations, but you would like the safety of a document only backup we can provide this for a very low fixed fee.
Server backups
The Veeam server backup client can take File, Volume, Disk or System backups from physical servers or Virtual Private Servers in your office or datacentre. Virtual machines can also be backed up from the host with no need for a client within the guest operating system.
Data backup can be targeted in any combination of your own local or offsite storage, or our own backup storage.
Data backup can be targeted in any combination of your own local or offsite storage, or our own backup storage.
Backup restoration and testing
Files, folder, volumes or entire systems can be restored to your own hardware, virtual environments, or our Disaster Recovery Environment. To expedite recovery we offer Reverse Incremental technology, where the latest copy of the backup is always ready to launch for testing or restoration.
Backup licensing and data storage
We can provide monthly licensing and offsite data storage with all of our backup management services, alternatively we can provide the licensing or data storage as standalone services.
Cloud service backups
We can provide backups for cloud services such as Microsoft Office 365 or Azure, targeting the backup to 3rd party cloud storage, our backup servers, or your own in house storage.
"Thank you also for providing help when I needed it rather than when it suited you."
"I would like to thank OX365 for the competent and professional service that you provided when my laptop failed recently. Although I eventually succeeded in retrieving my amateur backup, Now that that you have set up my backup facilities properly, I am confident that it will happen seamlessly next time. Thank you also for providing help when I needed it rather than when it suited you."
James Gunn
Director of SME's