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Would you rather spend half an hour once, and a few minutes a week or spend hundreds of hours and rebuild all of your data?  This is the decision many must face when they have valuable data stored on their computers.  Backing up important data is essential.  It is yet another situation where a small amount of effort over a long time span will reap long-term rewards.

We saw a Louisiana company move to Birmingham when they had to start all over because their data was wiped out by hurricane Katrina.  To prevent your important information from being wiped out in one fell swoop, we will transmit your data to our local facility and our Mississippi facility, or servers in multiple states.  We are able to move your data securely with multiple internet connections in case one goes down, and once your data is moved off site, it is stored in our secure SAS 70 facility.

Disasters are not the only threat to your data’s security however.  Thieves often seek out electronics, and if your computer is stolen your backup drive very well might be too.  Losing your data by means of theft is a very real possibility.  For example, one of our clients once left a laptop on a plane after arriving, and by the time he realized his laptop was misplaced it was too late.  Fortunately, we had backed up his data so that even though everything he needed for his business was stored on his missing laptop, we held a backup copy of the data so his business was back up and running the next day.

Burglars aren’t the only individuals that pose a threat to your data- hackers and viruses often try to break in to people’s computers through the internet in order to steal your data.  Did you know that your name, phone number, address, and other personal information can be bought and sold as if it was a commodity?  This practice offers a dangerous cash incentive for people to break into your computer.   Often times, this will involve installing spyware on your computer, which can be just as destructive to the rest of your data as a virus.  The risk of your data being destroyed by those trying to make a buck by breaking into your computer is very real.  Our CAP-IT Complete program includes 4gb of off-site backup.

If you’ve ever replaced a broken cell phone, you know how much of a hassle it is to get all your contacts, appointments, photos and other information restored to your next phone.  Just like with computers however, this can be avoided by taking steps to back up your data.  Phone applications like Google Sync and Lookout Mobile can back up things like your contacts, calendars, pictures and more; whether you have an iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile phone, Blackberry, or Symbian phone, there is a backup solution for your needs.  If you have an older, Java enabled phone, there are backup applications for you too, such as MobileBackup.  If your phone is not Java enabled, you are limited to backing up your contacts to your SIM card, which is still a very good idea.

Odds are that if you use your computer on a regular basis for more than just web browsing, you have something stored on it that you cannot easily replace.  Where do you keep the photos you have taken with your digital camera?  Are they safe?  What about music?  Home movies?  Documents?  That memory card you store your photos on is great for storing pictures, but not so great for storing them long term.  Cameras and memory cards are very fragile devices, and can be damaged extensively by being dropped, broken (they are wafer thin), power surges, static electricity, disaster and other accidents.  Backing up photos by burning them to a CD is easy; it will last for decades and we can do it for you at a reasonable rate.  Speaking of burning, if you are as concerned about disasters as our corporate clients are, you might want to take advantage of our off-site backup services as well, or let us manage all of your computer issues with our CAP-IT Complete program. 

If you ever need any sort of help with data backup, or more information, feel free to let us know.

Rob Saunders
Saunders Business Solutions
(205) 408-0600 Ext 204

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These are things you never want to hear when you’re at work. The last thing you need is to be stuck between unreliable technology and supervisors pushing you to perform. Technical difficulties will have a direct, negative impact on your productivity no matter what. It is up to you (or your employer) whether or not you want to ignore them and hope they go away or take action and keep these problems to an absolute minimum.

Being seen and interacted with might be great for business if you are an actor in Hollywood, but maintaining constant contact with an IT company will only get in your way. We won’t make you fill out complex tickets when you have a computer issue; having a technical issue doesn’t mean you should have to jump through hoops to make it easier on your IT provider. We will also work with you and your schedule so that we can service your computer remotely after hours or on site when you aren’t using it.

Internet outages can result in a huge productivity loss for your company if action is not taken to prevent them in the future. For example, if you needed a proposal for a big client when you are out of the office, and it was saved on your employee’s computer, there would be no way to get the file to you, and you would lose the sale. This might sound far-fetched, but just like a fire or hurricane it becomes all too real when it happens to you. Wouldn’t it be great to prevent this issue before it even happened?

Once again, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure; if you were better prepared for this problem you would save a lot of money. We can monitor your network remotely, keep an eye out for issues, and stop them before they happen. If critical problems do occur, dealing with them will be our first priority, and we will have a technician help you when you want and where you want.

Confused by jargon – those big words and acronyms specific to their profession that people often use or abuse? That should be kept to a minimum- at Saunders Business Solutions, we will be happy to have some real communication, where both of us understand each other, and where common courtesy is not thrown to the wayside. Talking to a technician shouldn’t belittle or confuse you, and you shouldn’t have to fill out work orders and other paperwork yourself beforehand. All it takes is a phone call or e-mail, and we’ll be there for you.

In the 19th century, John Stewart Mills stated “It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.“ Today, we are doing our best to prove him wrong.

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