Your local police department is what you would usually think of when you hear “To Serve and Protect”.  But when it comes to your documents, photos, and data there is a great option for safe storage that doesn’t involve disks, tapes, or gadgets that can get lost, stolen or damaged. 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.With less than 30% of lost or stolen laptops ever being found this is a real concern.

A inexpensive and practical solution is Internet Attached Storage. 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.

When using Internet Attached Storage there are some considerations that are key. Things to think about include:

Set frequent backups

Frequent backups reduce the chance of losing information. The best Internet Attached Storage services have network drive and synchronization features.

Keep your files

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.

Clean it up

It makes no sense to store files for recall later if when later happens, you can’t find them. Internet Attached Storage has a file/folder structure that mirrors your own disk. It’s a smart business decision to do so.

Keep it secure

Passwords are required for Internet Attached Storage. Keeping your password and username safe keeps your personal files from being compromised.

People have files that can’t be replaced, like tax returns and email, and files that it would be nice to access anytime and anywhere, like a photographs. Data to consider synchronizing to Internet Attached Storage include:

Photographs

Home Video

Audio Files

Financial Data

Work Related Files

Manuals

Email Archives

Internet Attached Storage has advanced beyond online backup to provide features like synchronization and network drive 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.