Turn Your NAS into a RAS

Thanks, Kibbe, for letting us know about Backup Review in your comment on our post  on making a Data Plan on Handshake 2.0. It is helpful for companies to have a good reference point to start their research into data backup services offered out there.

A company lives and dies by its data these days, and having a stranger get  your files, as noted in Backup Review' s HP Upline Online Backup Solution Review, was really not cool.  It appears as if most of these service providers are focusing on consumer level services, inexpensive with minimal to no support, and no Service Level Agreements (SLA).

A great deal of these "online" backup services have unknown security issues which gets particularly dicey with data for small and medium businesses (SMB).  Public access to a company's files is not something that small businesses would find attractive.

A chance always exists that a large, Internet-based, open service would be compromised, or even disappear, as did the HP Upline service last year for a few days. This can kill a business which needs access to files 24/7/365. The services may also require additional proprietary software of unknown security or function, which is a potential security hole and against many internal IT policies.

At Brush Mountain Data Center (BMDC), we have identified and focus primarily on a slightly higher-end market place in order for clients to be assured of bullet-proof data security. We provide secure network/data center "parking places" and services to small business clients  wherein they can locate their own, or lease, dedicated remote servers for off-site redundancy of their mission critical data.

As a client of Brush Mountain Data Center, for instance, a company can buy an inexpensive commercially available Network Attached Storage (NAS) device and place it in our Data Center for $100 per month.

This Network Attached Storage, or NAS, is then configured to appear as a local NAS but is securely attached via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnel over the Internet. This arrangement can be thought of as a "Remote Attached Storage (RAS) device."  So you turn your NAS into a RAS and get the benefits of both.

This is just a bit more expensive than bulk Internet services, or even those "something for nothing" promises of many of the backup service providers. By implementing the concept of a remote attached storage device, however, companies can feel much more at ease as they are more in control of their important data.

Brush Mountain Data Center offers this service and others in many different levels to provide customers with as much hands on control as they desire.

We recommend that small businesses keep these points in mind when developing their overall Data Plan.

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