Online storage becoming businesses' backup

Alternatives to conventional data archiving methods such as tapes, CDs or external drives, are winning corporate converts 

JOANNA PACHNER

Here is a startling statistic, courtesy of research company IDC: 40 per cent of small and mid-sized businesses never back up their data. Here's another that puts the first one in perspective: 70 per cent of small businesses go belly up within a year of suffering a major loss of data. 

Steve Rodin, president of Toronto-based Storagepipe Solutions, a six-year-old online backup company, says signing up for his service is like getting a techie dedicated to protecting your data without having to pay a full-time salary.

"There's more interest in having specialists do the data backup now," he says. "The importance of disaster recovery and offsite data protection have become more top of mind after 9/11, Katrina and the East Coast blackout."

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