Innovative Data Protection for Your Business

More data is being stored in smaller spaces. Today's hard drives store 500 times the data stored on the drives of a decade ago. Increasing storage capacities amplify the impact of data loss.

Data has become more mission-critical. hospital patient records, email, office documents, financial databases and payroll records. Users today are storing more information electronically than ever. The loss of mission critical data can have staggering financial, legal and productivity ramifications on businesses and home users alike.

Traditional backup tools and techniques are not 100% reliable. Most computer users rely on backups as their safety net in the event of data loss (a recommended practice). Research indicates that 80 percent of companies that lost data were regularly backing up their data, only to find them less than adequate at the critical moment they need to restore them.

Backups assume that hardware and storage media are in working order; that the data is not corrupted, and that your backup is recent enough to provide full recovery. In reality, hardware and software do fail and backups don't always contain current enough data.

Leading causes of data loss

• 44% Hardware of System Malfunctions including electrical failure, head/media crash, controller failure
• 32% Human Error including accidental deletion or drive format, trauma caused by drop or fall.
• 14% Software Corruption including corruption caused by diagnostic or repair tools, failed backups, configuration complexity.
• 7% Computer Viruses including boot sector viruses, file infecting viruses, polymorphic viruses.
• 3% Natural Disasters including fires, Floods, Brownouts.

Other issues can arise from traditional backup systems such as:

Who is doing test restores of backed up data. Many clients are changing over a tape or DVD each day with no idea if the backup process is actually working or not.

Who is correctly rotating the media so that all media except for last nights media is safely offsite.

Is the data on the backup medium encrypted so that if it is lost a person off the street can't just load it and obtain access to your company's confidential information.

How much data history do you have. Many people only have 5 media (last 5 days of history) which is useless if someone accidentally deleted a file 2 weeks ago and you have only just discovered it missing.

What method of reporting to business owners/company executives exists that the BACKUP is successful on a daily basis.

The data backup challenge

For many companies, protecting their data can be a challenge. Today, many companies perform tape backups but this approach can be unreliable, cumbersome, and expensive. The alternative method, creating backups over a wide area network (WAN), also poses problems because of the amount of data and the cost of bandwidth. The Hostus online backup system addresses these hurdles and enables companies to efficiently manage and protect your data.

The Hostus solution

Hostus online backup offers secure, storage-optimized data protection for remote offices across diverse IT environments. online backup combines disk-based backup with distinctive fingerprinting technology to rapidly identify the unique, changed segments of data. By identifying only those unique segments of data to backup, online backup reduces the network bandwidth used to move data offsite as well as the amount of storage required. Web-based access for both data recovery and administration streamlines management and access to important data. These features in Hostus online backup enable business to effectively address the challenges of data protection.

Included in each product is all support relating to ensuring that the backup system is working on a daily basis. This includes any remote support to fix any backup issues. Unlimited restores and helpdesk are also included. We are also responsible for upgrading to the latest versions of our backup software.