ATI Microsoft Small Business Server+ 1_year maint.

Best backup solution for small companies

Small businesses face the same IT challenges as larger organizations, but they are more vulnerable when it comes to recovering from a disaster. Small companies are dependent on fewer servers, generally have smaller IT staffs, and fewer technical resources than a large enterprise so data recovery requires relatively more personnel and technological assets than those of large companies. In fact, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics states that 93% of all companies that experience "significant data loss" are out of business within five years. As a result, even a single critical server failure could have a dramatic impact on a small business' financial and IT health.

Here are the Top 7 features for a small business:

- Acronis Universal Restore ? restore to different hardware or to a virtual server

- Exclude files from backups ? Capture only business data and save space in storage archive

- Backup image encryption

- Boot from an image, using Acronis Active Restore? (a patent pending technology) ? Decrease downtime by allowing systems to be used during recovery

- Throttling to control hard disk write speed and network bandwidth usage ? Minimize disruptions of business operations

- Scheduling and Notifications ? Includes event-driven backups, periodic backup validations, and schedule cloning

- Modify images ? Mount images in read/write mode and apply changes directly, such as removing viruses and malware from existing images