Off Site Tape Backup Strategy and Planning - Supplementing ioSafe Hardware

Many businesses choose to implement an offsite data backup plan utilizing LTO, DLT, or VXA tape drives. These strategies are great for long term data archiving, but from an operational (broken tapes, worn out tapes, not able to thoroughly test recovery) and total cost of ownership (TCO) perspective an off site tape backup plan is not the strongest or best solution to data backup and recovery. Daily or even weekly tape rotation is a very expensive process and often costs upwards of $60,000 per location per year.

Supplementing your offsite tape data backup and storage plan with ioSafe disk-based hardware will not only provide your business with the greatest amount of 'recovery insurance,' but you will find that the TCO and overall costs associated with your off site data backup plan will decrease. Many businesses choose to implement ioSafe NAS storage servers to decrease the recover time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) and reduce the amount of tape backup from daily to weekly or monthly archiving. This 'belts and suspenders' strategy ensures that business goals for off site backup are met while serving to drive the business forward.

Data backup strategies are like insurance policies, do you have enough coverage?

There are many advantages to implementing an ioSafe disk backup and off site tape approach - mitigate data security risks, improve operational and disaster recovery RTO and RPO and reduce overall operating expenses across your business enterprise.

If a fire, flood, employee theft, equipment failure, virus, or the more common operator error were to cause you to lose all of your business data, how soon would your business be able to recover? Or would your business recover at all?

According to research by the University of Texas, only 6 percent of companies suffering from a catastrophic data loss survive, while 43 percent never reopen and 51 percent close within two years. Online backup can't provide complete and reliable protection or rapidly restore your server. Industry analysts agree that traditional disk based backup works better than tape based backup in almost all aspects except in disaster recovery. Clearly there is a need for a new protection strategy!

ioSafe R4 NAS Storage Server				ioSafe S2 two (2) Disk USB Fire Safe
	Fire Safe to 1700°F Waterproof to 30 ft. 3 or 5 yr. Warranty $5K per disk data recovery service
Network Attached Storage				External Hard Disk Drive

With every ioSafe data storage hardware purchase you get more than an innovative solution for data backup and recovery, you get the best customer service, support and warranty along with a standard 3 year disaster protection plan with data recovery service. Business insurance can replace your desks and chairs, but it will never replace your data.

Utliize ioSafe to eliminate the headaches and high costs of tape backup or in conjuction with storing CD's, Tapes, DVD's or Blu-Ray™ discs in a fire resistant safe.