Free Internet Storage

Using Biscu.com to Backup your Data

Free Internet storage has many advantages over traditional forms of storage. In this article we will compare free internet storage to CD-based storage and tape backups.

Both CD and Tape-based backup solutions require proprietary hardware. This hardware can be very expensive. It is not at all unusual for a CD-R or tape backup drive to cost as much as an entire year of free internet storage and that doesn’t include the cost of drive installation, the cost of CDs or the wages for the personnel that needs to swap them daily.

Tape backup media can be as expensive as $40 to $100 per cassette, almost as much as the drive itself! This is partially recouped by the fact that you can overwrite the cassette every time you back up your data. But the practice of overwriting one backup with another is dangerous. What if the cassette becomes corrupted during backup? This is not a stretch; tape backup cassettes are made from vinyl, an inherently instable material prone to heat damage, magnetic damage, water damage, chemical breakdown, stretching and even jamming. Experts recommend using six cassettes and swapping them at each backup. CD media is significantly less expensive but cannot be overwritten, resulting in wasteful usage.

Neither tape drives nor CD-R drives will encrypt your data so anyone who gains access to the media can steal your data. Biscu free internet storage is guaranteed secure. Our data centers are housed in a location secured against unauthorized access, earthquakes, fires and even floods. Further, we use state of the art hacker detection, firewalls and hacker risk management.

One of the biggest disadvantages to physical removable media such as CDs and Tapes is that they need to be swapped between backups. This makes automation difficult and costs money (human intervention means employee wages).

With free internet storage, you data can be accessed worldwide, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You don’t have to ship cassettes around, worry about cassettes getting lost in some warehouse or making a trip between offices physically carrying around your companies sensitive and critical data. Just log on and download anytime and anywhere.

Biscu.com free internet storage services store your data offsite. What good is the tape cassette if it burns along with the computers it was intended to back up?

Automation is easy with Biscu.com but very difficult with CD-R and tape backup solutions, both of which require media swapping between backups. Consider this: The more often you back up your data, the less data you loose when something goes wrong. If you can’t automate that process, the cost of backing the data up increases exponentially as the interval decreases.

Employees are expensive. You might already have a network administrator who could spend his take playing disc jockey, but wouldn’t his time be better spent making sure the network is working?