To secure SMB data storage backup, you’ve got to think of three things:

1. Will the backups work?
2. Can the drive backup be transferred (RELIABLY) off site
3. How can secure SMB data storage backup be simple yet cost effective?

Statistics show that the current market for storage is way past the $50-billion mark and a significant portion of it comes from SMBs.

Do you know why small and medium business needs are so critical?

Say you work in the IT department of a large enterprise. Your main concern would probably be to keep your job since technology generally makes businesses work with less people. And your big business IT department is probably filled with so many techies just like you!

But if you work in an SMB, you’re likely so overworked that you’ll clamor for more equipment, racks, anything that will take the load off. You’ll want an efficient way to store and copy data without having to handhold every stage through completion.

Basically, you’ll want to secure your database in a manner your company can afford with as little time on your part since you’re already attending to a gazillion things daily. And you’ll want affordable recovery.

That’s the challenge all vendors face: to be able to scale down enterprise needs for the SMB market, which probably needs the service more. The vendor that does that wins a bigger part of that $50-billion-plus pie!