Most businesses put their lives on the line every day and don't realize it. With businesses depending more and more on the data in their computers, proper backups are becoming increasingly critical.  Ensuring data integrity is the core foundation of our remote backup service.

Our service works like regular data backup software, with one important difference. Instead of sending backups to a tape drive or other media attached to the computer, it sends the data securely over the Internet to our backup servers safely off-site.

Tired of tape backups? You're not alone.

• Tape backup has been around for more than 25 years and still has a 50% failure rate
• More than 50% of employees back up their data to a mis-configured tape backup system  -Iron Mountain
• More than 34% do not test their backups and those that tested (77%) found their tape backup failed to recover  -Storage Magazine
• Nearly 50% of tape-based backups (or backup systems) fail to restore correctly -Gartner Group
• Tapes wear out, just like a VHS, but you can't tell by visual examination whether it's still good or not
• Tape drives are expensive and difficult to replace; new tapes cost $50 to $180 per unit and should be rotated out of service monthly
• To be effective, tape backup needs to be run daily, but it's easy to miss a day (or a week)
• Commonly, people forget to rotate the tapes

- Point-to-point SSL between server/client

- Supports HTTP/HTTPS proxy & socks

- Data is 128-bit encrypted when stored

- Choice of encryption algorithms: Twofish, Triple DES, AES

- Choice of different encryption modes: Electronic Cook Book (ECB) or Cipher Block Chaining (CBC)

- Restrict access by pre-defined IP

 

Secure 128-Bit SSL Communication

All communications between Ethoplex IT OBS server and your computer are transported in a 128-bit secure socket layer (SSL) channel. Although your backup files travel through the Internet, eavesdroppers have no knowledge of what has been exchanged.

Encrypted Data

Your files are digitally zipped, then encrypted with your personal encryption key before they are sent to the OBS backup server. To everyone else, your data appears to contain nothing more than random, unintelligible content.

Top Encryption Algorithm

Your data is securely encrypted with 128-bit Twofish, a block cipher designed by Counterpane Labs and chosen by the National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) as one of the five finalists for Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). The schema has been under frequent public review, yet to date there have been no known successful attacks.

Personal Encryption Key

Only you have the encrypting key. This key is used to encrypt your data and is known only by you. Ethoplex IT doesn't know it, and it is never transmitted online to any other source.

Restricted Access

You have the option to restrict access to your backup files from the set of IP addresses you pre-define. If someone tries to access your data from an IP address not on your specified list, access will be denied. This is an additional security measure to ensure your data is available only to the known locations of your choice, even in cases where the user name, password and encryption key are known.

Top Five Reasons to Use our Remote Backup Services

1. Protect all notebooks, desktops and servers
2. Protect business data against virus attack, hard disk failure as well as fire and flood.
3. Secure and reliable. Total peace of mind.
4. Fully automatic. Easy-to-use.
5. To save time and money

 

Protect Your Data Against

Natural Disasters
Acts of Terrorism
Computer Viruses
Sabotage

Daily Backup of Your General Data Files

Users My Documents Folder
Email, Contacts, Calendar
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003
Oracle 8i/9i
Lotus Dominos Notes 5.0 & Above

Runs on Many Operating Systems

Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP
MAX OS X
Linux/Unix/BSD
Novell
Sun Solaris
Any platform supporting Java2

Benefits

Fully automated
No administration required
Send data off site to secure data center
Reduces work load
Eliminate negligence
Easy to deploy and maintain
Saves money and time
Run your backup automatically at night
Receive morning backup report via email
Access your data anywhere, anytime
Easy-to-use web interface

 

• 6% of all PCs will suffer an episode of data loss in any given year. Given the number of PCs used in US businesses in 1998, that translates to approximately 4.6 million data loss episodes. At a conservative estimate, data loss cost US businesses $11.8 billion in 1998.  -The Cost Of Lost Data, David M. Smith
  
• 30% of all businesses that have a major fire go out of business within a year. 70% fail within five years.  -Home Office Computing Magazine
  
  
• 31% of PC users have lost all of their files due to events beyond their control.
  
  
• 34% of companies fail to test their tape backups, and of those that do, 77% have found tape back-up failures.
  
  
• 60% of companies that lose their data will shut down within 6 months of the disaster.
  
  
• 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster. 50% of businesses that found themselves without data management for this same time period filed for bankruptcy immediately.  -National Archives & Records Administration in Washington
  
• American business lost more than $7.6 billion as a result of viruses during first six months of 1999.  -Research by Computer Economics
  
  
• Companies that aren't able to resume operations within ten days (of a disaster hit) are not likely to survive.  -Strategic Research Institute
  
  
• Simple drive recovery can cost upwards of $7,500 and success is not guaranteed.
  
  

What causes data loss?

Among other causes, data loss can be attributed to system or human error, adverse environmental conditions and device failure (see Figure 1 below).

Human causes of data loss include intentional or accidental deletion or overwriting of files. Virus damage, operating system or application software bugs, or failed upgrades may also cause data loss.

Common physical causes of data loss include power loss or power surge, overheating, electrostatic (static) discharge and any kind of physical damage to the storage device or medium.

Causes of Data Loss