If your laptop is stolen, how much of your business will go with it? That is the question Dederick Venter of @lantic, the consumer and small business service provider within the Vox Telecom group, says every small business owner should ask. If the answer is anything other than ‘nothing’, it is time to review your backup policies.
“Small businesses very often fail to keep adequate backups of their critical files and servers because it seems complicated and expensive,” says Venter. “But losing data can be crippling. We have seen too many businesses lose out on opportunities because someone’s contact database went missing along with their laptop. That is why @lantic has introduced a hosted backup solution that makes backup as easy as possible, at a price that small businesses can genuinely afford.”
For R15 per GB per month, Xpress Hosted Backup offers an efficient way to back up and restore everything from individual laptops to data centres. “The whole point of keeping backups is so that if and when disaster happens and you lose data, you do not lose your business with it,” Venter says. “Xpress makes it quick and easy to restore a lost file, disk, machine or even your whole office. “
He says the solution uses a number of techniques to make storage more efficient, including data compression and de-duplication to make sure clients do not end up paying to store multiple copies of the same file.
Xpress Hosted Backup is available for Windows and Mac platforms, and can handle mixed environments. “The best thing is that you do not need an IT specialist to manage it – it is one single application that is simple to set up and manage. We come from an SMME background ourselves and we know how important it is to provide services that genuinely save the entrepreneur’s time rather than adding yet more admin tasks.”
For more information contact Riaan Gouws, @lantic, +27 (0)87 805 3370, [email protected]
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