Radio Interview with Ed Tucker, Tucker Communications, and John Neibel, Mirrored Storage.  Discussed the need for businesses to back up their business critical information.  “Don’t risk your business on a maybe!”

Internet Radio Interview

Random Act of Culture

On Saturday, October 30, 2010, the Opera Company of
Philadelphia brought together from 28 participating
organizations to perform one of the Knight Foundation's
"Random Acts of Culture" at Macy's in Center City
Philadelphia. Accompanied by the Wanamaker Organ - the
world's largest pipe organ - the OCP Chorus and throngs
of singers from the community infiltrated the store as
shoppers, and burst into a pop-up rendition of the
Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's "Messiah" at 12 noon,
to the delight of surprised shoppers.

This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on Tue, October 26th, 2010 – Mirrored Storage Comments below

And tape used by 75%, according to report from Aberdeen Group

Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company, has found that companies that backup critical data and systems at remote locations have a faster recovery time from computer-generated business interruptions.

Aberdeen’s recent research report, Off-site Storage and Computing: Keys to Successful Disaster Recovery ($399), shows companies employ various methods and technologies for managing offsite storage for their critical data, keeping it safe from even the most severe disaster scenarios.

The report features research based on a survey of the disaster recovery practices of over 100 worldwide companies.

Aberdeen’s research found:

• Ninety-five percent (95%) of leading companies utilize off-site storage of critical data. Fifty-seven percent (57%) report replication of critical computing systems to remote locations.
• One third of highly performing organizations (33%) employ simultaneous backup to remote locations. This ensures that little, if any, data is lost with a system interruption as all data is being replicated remotely as it is created.
• Tape storage is still used by 75% of superior organizations, indicating that the medium’s usefulness still remains, particularly for cost and long term archiving reasons.

“Preventing and recovering from computer-generated business interruptions continues to be a focus in the IT industry,” says Dick Csaplar, Senior Research Analyst and author of the study. “Leading organizations report less than 1 business interruption over the last 12 months and require less than one hour of time to recover 90% of their operational functionality. This superior performance is accomplished through several technologies, but the key reason for quick recovery is that critical data and systems are remotely located.”

Source: http://www.storagenewsletter.com/news/tapes/aberdeen-group-off-site-storage

Mirrored Storage Comments:

This is exactly why I entered this market.  Larger company have a significant gap, 67% don’t have backups simultaneously going to a remote location.  In the small and medium size business market the number of firm without a comprehensive solution in place.  From the beginning we offered both a local disk and remote backup for your customers.

We offer a free backup assessment with no strings attached or you can take a quiz online.  If we are not a good fit we tell you so.  Our mission is to help protect companies from the disaster of data loss.

John Neibel
President

This is a GREAT article from breathbrown that I just had to share.

original article

When your business involves a huge turnover of data both incoming and outgoing….

Ever been driving and suddenly realized that you missed a mileage milestone?

After reaching the first large milestone of 10,000 successful backups on April 4^th of this year we flew by 15,000 and completed 16,023 last night. That’s more than 1,000 per month average.

Another key metric is that we also signed up our 50^th customer in September.

While I don’t really advertise it, there have been some backups that stopped working or were missed.  My mornings start with not checking what happened last night, but what DIDN’T happen.  I pride myself on being on top of my key value proposition, Managing my customers backup.

Lastly, we are now Social!  Follow us on Linked-In and Facebook.

I offer a free data backup assessment both online through our quiz or onsite looking at your environment in detail.  Call, contact or email us for an appointment today!

John Neibel
214-550-0550

At Mirrored Storage, we understand that companies across Dallas-Ft. Worth are tightening their belts and cutting back on expenses while they try to ride out this (seemingly interminable) economic storm. And for some, it might be tempting to trade savings for risk, and cut back on non-essential things like insurance and security measures.

Say, for example, online backup and data storage.

Don’t give into the temptation. Flee it. Bury it in a deep, dark hole. Never speak of it again.

The extra cost (minimal, we should emphasize) you might incur now by going the extra step to secure your work and data will pay itself off several times over if you ever experience massive data loss. Many companies simply never recover from system crashes.

Still skeptical? Take five minutes and try out our free data risk assessment quiz to better decide if online backup is something you might want to think twice about jettisoning.

In the quiz, we’ll ask you about factors like:

• The type of data stored on your computer.
• The number of people who have access to your system.
• The types of networks you employ.
• The level of difficulty of overcoming potential large-scale data loss.
• How you currently file and secure important data.
• How often you test your backup system.

We’ll then have an expert data backup consultant review your information, and give you a thorough system assessment.

As we’ve seen over and over again in the recent years around the nation, minimizing costs that don’t directly boost the bottom line at the expense of caution, security, and stability have added enormous amounts of fragility to many companies and systems—fragility that was exposed when even minor factors started going wrong. Plan for the unexpected problems, and you can avoid this.

Contact us for more information, or get started on the quiz now. It’s a no brainer, really.

Small Business Commerce Association’s Award Honors the Achievement

SAN FRANCISCO, July 17, 2009, Mirrored Storage has been selected for the 2009 Best of Business Award in the Data processing and preparation category by the Small Business Commerce Association (SBCA)

The Small Business Commerce Association (SBCA) is pleased to announce that Mirrored Storage has been selected for the 2009 Best of Business Award in the Data processing and preparation category.

The SBCA 2009 Award Program recognizes the top 5% of small businesses throughout the country. Using statistical research and consumer feedback, the SBCA identifies companies that we believe have demonstrated what makes small businesses a vital part of the American economy. The selection committee chooses the award winners from nominees based off statistical research and also information taken from monthly surveys administered by the SBCA, a review of consumer rankings, and other consumer reports. Award winners are a valuable asset to their community and exemplify what makes small businesses great.

About Small Business Commerce Association (SBCA)

Small Business Commerce Association (SBCA) is a San Francisco based organization. The SBCA is a private sector entity that aims to provide tactical guidance with many day to day issues that small business owners face. In addition to our main goal of providing a central repository of small business operational advice; we use consumer feedback to identify companies that exemplify what makes small business a vital part of the American economy.

SOURCE: Small Business Commerce Association

CONTACT:
Small Business Commerce Association
Email: Press@SBCAAwards.org
URL: http://www.SBCAAwards.org

CONTACT:

Mirrored Storage, Inc.
Email: sales@mirroredstorage.com
URL: http://MirroredStorage.com

I have been asked this many times. When I share my views as a use of laptops in and out of corporate environments for more than 20 years most Corporate IT professionals are shocked!  While working in any corporate environment my laptop contains critical, proprietary, confidential and mission critical information and NONE were ever backed up by anyone other than me.  This information included contracts, commitments on behalf of the company, revenue forecasts, customer data, etc, etc, etc.

Let’s discuss why a laptop backup software solution is absolutely required in the business organization world.  Laptops are prominent in most sizable enterprises today. The use of portable laptops has inflated by twofold, due to the ease of use, and portability, but this has also created other issues. But laptops are being used by employees of all levels both for in office use and also for remote or at home use. This has created difficulty for IT staff whose responsibility is the backup the information in a timely fashion.

Corporate IT personnel have a hard time backing up that confidential information on these laptops because of the laptops location, and often there is a lot of highly confidential information kept on these laptops. Most business organization IT departments are accustomed to backing up computers that have constant connection to the network. But, when it comes to business organization laptops, these are often off the network when the regular backups occur. Because the backup with a conventional software solution is regular according to a specific time the laptops are not always connected therefore they miss out on the backup. Specialized laptop backup software solution backups up the laptop as it joins to the electronic network, but most don’t handle the following well or at all:

• losing the network connection
• being removed from the network connection during backup
• user stops the backup before it is completed

An example might illustrate the difficulties with conventional backup software solution more clearly. For instance let’s compare to car insurance.  When you buy automobile insurance coverage that you would not have to trouble yourself about where you go you should be protected everyplace. Now what if that policy has a rider that states that you can only drive within a 100 mile range in order to be protected?  The company, or person, has paid for full coverage, but can only go within a certain limited area. This example illustrates what happens when the companies data backup solution does not reliably backup laptops at a remote location or only when it is connected to the network. While the software solution programs provide laptop backup it is often tied to conventional patterns of time and regular connectivity. With reliable laptop backup software solution, both management and IT staff, feel comfortable in the knowledge, that even crucial information kept on laptops located off the network, is backed up at proper times and dates.

Just as in the insurance lesson above increasing laptop backup protection safeguards all over not only in specific areas or time. By having trustworthy laptop backup software there is a sizable increase of time and resources for the corporation as a whole since the info is assured and accessible.