Online Backup: Worth the Risk?

For most organizations, data is the lifeblood of the enterprise. Yet while much time is spent creating and using data, too often little thought is given to protecting that data from loss. While backups have been the time-tested method for loss protection, they too often get shoved down the priority list and not paid enough attention to in the organization. The proliferation of online backup services seems to be the easy and obvious answer to maintaining an effective organizational backup plan. Yet there are a number of questions that should be addressed before committing enterprise data to an online backup environment. The goal of this paper is to surface the issues that need to be addressed when considering an online backup platform.