Cloud backup systems can offer the ultimate in security for your precious data. Depending upon the volume and frequency of your backups, it may be important to ensure that you have an adequate communications bandwidth in place to support this approach.
We are sometimes asked to explain the variations in cloud backup services and why they affect something called ‘bandwidth’.
This is something best explained in a conversation but here is a quick overview!
All of the critical data and systems in your IT environment should be backed up. That’s to ensure that in the event of one form of disaster or another, your critical data could be rapidly restored to enable your business to keep running.
Through our cloud backup services, all of this can be done automatically and invisibly to you. Your data will be backed up and stored in a secure location and you will never have to worry about things such as disk copies and so on!
However, not all IT installations are the same.
For example, some organisations have largely entirely outsourced their IT operations meaning that they don’t have big boxes sitting around on their premises. All of their databases, applications software and so on, are stored in the Cloud already.
That means that when their systems are being backed up, it is effectively cloud-to-cloud and nothing of their data being backed up needs to go through the communication lines between their office and the outside world.
Customers that have their file servers and software in-house can still use cloud backup services to protect them but when the data is being copied, it will be moving from the customer’s site down through one form of wire or another to a secure cloud location.
In the case of larger organisations, this can mean very substantial volumes of data are going up and down your communication lines to the outside world on a regular basis. Depending upon the amount of space and speed that your line provider offers you (also known as its bandwidth) that might, at times, be something of an issue.
Let’s not speculate further here though. Instead, why not call us for a discussion about your specific situation and we can offer you very precise advice on cloud backups and whether or not they may be an issue for your communications infrastructure.
We are sometimes asked to explain the variations in cloud backup services and why they affect something called ‘bandwidth’.
This is something best explained in a conversation but here is a quick overview!
All of the critical data and systems in your IT environment should be backed up. That’s to ensure that in the event of one form of disaster or another, your critical data could be rapidly restored to enable your business to keep running.
Through our cloud backup services, all of this can be done automatically and invisibly to you. Your data will be backed up and stored in a secure location and you will never have to worry about things such as disk copies and so on!
However, not all IT installations are the same.
For example, some organisations have largely entirely outsourced their IT operations meaning that they don’t have big boxes sitting around on their premises. All of their databases, applications software and so on, are stored in the Cloud already.
That means that when their systems are being backed up, it is effectively cloud-to-cloud and nothing of their data being backed up needs to go through the communication lines between their office and the outside world.
Customers that have their file servers and software in-house can still use cloud backup services to protect them but when the data is being copied, it will be moving from the customer’s site down through one form of wire or another to a secure cloud location.
In the case of larger organisations, this can mean very substantial volumes of data are going up and down your communication lines to the outside world on a regular basis. Depending upon the amount of space and speed that your line provider offers you (also known as its bandwidth) that might, at times, be something of an issue.
Let’s not speculate further here though. Instead, why not call us for a discussion about your specific situation and we can offer you very precise advice on cloud backups and whether or not they may be an issue for your communications infrastructure.
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