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Internet Attached Storage – Big Features for Small Systems

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

“To Serve and Protect” is a phrase usually bringing thoughts of your local police department.But your photos, documents, and other files can be protect with a great option of safe media free storage. Internet Attached Storage can protect and store your personal information in a location other than your home, office, or on that USB stick in your pocket.

Although your computer files are safe from many threats, there is still the danger of flood or fire, or computer related damage, like hard drive failure, viruses, or human error damaging your data. It is nearly impossible to recover Computer data in all but the most ideal of circumstances.  And if you have a laptop computer or netbook theft is a very real danger.

Internet Attached Storage is a practical and cost effective options. Your files are encrypted and transferred for storage to keep your data private, but accessible by you. Password protection is always provided for your security.

Key considerations when using Internet Attached Storage. Some helpful points are:

Set frequent backups

The more often you backup your files, the less likely you will lose information. The best Internet Attached Storage services provide network drive and user configurable synchronization features.

Have multiple copies

Though Internet Attached Storage is very secure, it’s both convenient and smart to keep your local files local.Thus making it easy to mirror data to your Internet Attached Storage space.

Make your files findable

It makes no sense to store files for recall later if when later happens, you can’t find them. Internet Attached Storage is organized just like your hard disk. It’s a smart business decision to do so.

Passwords are your secret key

Internet Attached Storage cannot be accessed without the password assigned to it. Always keep your username and password safe so your personal files aren’t compromised.

You don’t want to have to reconstruct banking data, bemoan the loss of family photos, tax returns, and important documents. And getting to this data from anywhere is a key element of being able to beat the competition. Types of data you should upload to Internet Attached Storage:

Photos

Video

Audio

Financial Data

Word Documents

Manuals

Email

Internet Attached Storage provides features beyond online backup like network drive and data synchronization features that give you operational benefits while protecting your data.

Which Internet Attached Storage product do we like?  We particularly like the features, cost, and reliability of OPENRSM CloudBackup.  It gives a great balance of features that go way beyond simple online backup that is particularly cost effective.  We endorse it wholeheartedly.