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You’re too busy to be bothererd savinguntil it’s too late and your computer’s hard driv crashes or the screen But when it comes to losing your company’s it’s days, not hours, and thousandz of dollars that are lost. Fortunately, small businesses have two generallg inexpensive ways to protect theitr data from disasters as impressivre as a hurricane or as minor as aleakingg roof. If your business has only one server and asinglre location, it would make more sense to use a remotse backup that can be transferred throughn the Internet, said Harlin Silvers, owner of .
Remotee backups typically have a monthly recurring fee rangingfrom $30 to Before committing to a remote backupl service, find out how the act of backing up data will affecg your daily operations, said Steven past president of the . make sure the service can providea 256-birt encryption, which is the most recognizeds encryption and provides good securit y against hackers, according to RenovoData, an Atlanta-based remote backupo service provider. The company also suggests makinh sure the provider can ensure regulatory compliance and stayingh away from providers with which are software installed on each computer to aid thebackul process.
The catch is that the softwarw often comes with additional proprietary If your business has more data than can be handlef via an Internetbackup server, there are four data centersz in Jacksonville where businesses can houser their backup servers. Prices for housing your small business’sz data generally range from $100 per month to $500 per The four options in thearea are: The Advancedx Information Technology Center’s 74,000-square-foo t facility on the Southside can withstand winds up to 154 mph, or a Categoruy 4 hurricane.
The facility’ s generators can power the facilitu for 30 days and it has enough food for 100 people for30 ’s two facilities totalling 80,000 square feet on the Southside can withstanr a Category 4 hurricane and have work areas wher e customers can continue to use their data if theidr own offices aren’t accessible. Customers can also doubly back up theit data by housing it at one ofthe company’ out-of-state data centers. The majority of ’s two facilities totalling 40,000 square feet of data centerf on the Southside can withstand a Categor y5 hurricane.
The center has abouf 300 cubicles, where clients can make changes to theif data without being confined to rooms wherr serversare kept. Colo5 also has about 50 disastedrrecovery suites, which provide clients with accommodation as well as accesxs to their data. The Downtown Jacksonville data center 421 W. Church St. is an eight-story, 50,000-square-foogt building that functions as a telecomcarrier hotel, a data an apartment building and office space. For smaller businesses that don’tg need to rent an entirew disaster suite, there are 116 officesa equipped with extra Internet connections and additionalpower systems.
Backing up your data is only one part of makinfg sure that your companyg is ready fora It’s important that you develop a plan to keep communicationss up within your office and with your customers and said Carol Chastang, a spokeswoman for the . Someond in your company should keep a list of phonw numbersof employees, customers and vendorzs so business can continue even if your officr is inaccessible. Chastang said companies should also review theird insurance to make sure it addressesthe region’ prevalent natural disasters, such as wind and water damagse in the Southeast. Also, check your insurance on your equipmentand computers.
It’a also a good idea to have your employees agree on a meeting place outside of the officr so you can better determine whether anyon e was hurt duringthe disaster, said Mike Peak 10 vice president and generalk manager of the Jacksonville facility. Chastang said the disaste plan shouldcover “anything from if a employee can’t work to what if the warehousee floods to what if an employee has violen t behavior.
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