Cloud-based online backup services offer big gains in efficiency

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Backing up critical business data to tape, drive or off-site systems can be time-consuming and resource-intensive for many companies. However, CloudTweaks reported recently that an innovative new type of cloud service can make the task much easier.

Combining cloud technology with incremental backup - which ends the necessity of transferring huge amounts of data every time backups are performed by copying only the files that have changed since the last time - makes for a relatively hassle-free process, according to the news source.

This also alleviates the worry and expense of continually gauging whether a company has enough storage on its own networks to handle such ongoing backup processes, since cloud services can offer scalable, pay-per-use storage options, adding more capacity to their systems as demanded by the client.

That kind of flexibility is the hallmark of cloud services, according to experts, who note that businesses negotiating the correct security arrangements and uptime guarantees can realize substantial savings from such an arrangement. Experts note as well that online backup systems have the advantage of being off-site, protecting important data from the effects of, for instance, a natural disaster.