Collocate You Servers For Increased Data Integrity

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by: DavidWolf
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Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 Time: 8:35 AM
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Regardless of the method you choose, securing your valuable data is a high priority for both personal users and businesses. How you choose to accomplish that will depend on the type of data you are backing up as well as the type of files. Certainly business and personal users normally have differing data storage and retrieval needs both in terms of capacity and security requirements.

Today, there are many companies that market online data storage in servers that are secured in a remote locations, typically charging users a monthly fee based on the amount of data they wish to store. While a dedicated server for secure data storage is more expensive than sharing a server with other people or companies, it is also more expensive. For these reasons, many people choose to use colocated hosting at a remote site.

Certainly, businesses typically have much larger data storage and retrieval needs than personal users. It is not unusual for even a relatively small business to have several terabytes of data storage needs. For mid-size businesses, data storage requirements may be as high as several hundred terabytes, or more.. For example, retailers often need to back up their sales and business correspondence data on a daily basis, to save guard their data in the event of fire, flood, or hard drive malfunction. Computer crashes can also wreak havoc on business and while software can be re-loaded the merchandise listings will take a long time to input.

In the case of businesses, server colocation can be an ideal solution for insuring data integrity and continuous access to sensitive customer data. When utilizing collocated hosting, you do not maintain a local server, the server and all your secure data are maintained at a remote site that has redundant server and power back up capabilities in place. These collocated server sites are generally highly secure and have numerous backup systems, including power backup and redundant servers to insure that your data is secure and your customers have access to your corporate web server at all times.

For most businesses, it is very important to have complete control over who can access their data and how access is obtained. In this event, they may own their own secure data storage server offsite with access to the encrypted files limited to one or two people

It is common for many people to have limited access to selected data, but access to backup data is most often tightly controlled and restricted. Several do not even allow the system administrator access to the backup files in secure data storage as a means of protecting them from potential liability.

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