Hand on heart - can you guarantee that your business data is safe? With the ever-increasing popularity of the home office, businesses are facing new security challenges. Not only do they need to secure their own servers and storage, but also their employees' laptops, smartphones and other devices. What's more, these are often used not only by employees, but - let's not kid ourselves - by other family members as well. And that's not all. Remote working is not the only thing that is changing the face of the modern workplace and IT infrastructure. Increasingly resourceful are also Cyber attackers.
How to watch the unwatchable?
IT specialists face a Herculean task - securing the data that people work with, without exaggeration, all over the world and that cyber-attackers attack from all sides, seems at first glance to be mission impossible. Here's a tip - don't rely on your data being safe when it's stored in your company building. Entrust them to external specialists - professional datacentres.
While there are cases where managing data in-house is a sensible choice, it is rather rare. Managing your own data center requires specialised skills and experienceespecially in terms of security and scalability. Most companies, when they look at their IT department objectively, recognise that they do not have a sufficiently skilled team.
External specialized datacenters usually have better security measures than most companies - This includes both physical protection of the building and IT security measures and monitoring.
By the way - it's not just about safety. Storing data in an external datacenter is also economical. Building and maintaining your own datacenter is not cheap. Imagine how much it would cost to purchase and maintain hardware, software, electricity, cooling, security... shall we go on? The advantage of an external datacenter is that you share the cost with other users. A kind of "co-working" for data. You'll also save money because you can scale your infrastructure quickly and flexibly and only pay for what you use at any given time.
Why is it not safe to have data "stored" in the office or in the company building?
- Data stored in the office or elsewhere in the company is physically vulnerable. They can be threatened by fire, flood, theft, etc.
- Not all companies pride themselves on top-notch security measures and team safety training. This makes it easy for data to be accessed unauthorized persons.
- If there is a technical failure and appropriate data backup is not performed, data loss occurs, which is often irreversible.
- If data is only physically stored in one place, it may not be accessible outside the office - if someone is working from home, in the field or on the road, they are excluded from team collaboration. They are also not accessible outside of work hours.
What to look for when choosing a datacenter?
Reliability
Choosing a datacenter is the same as choosing any other business partner or supplier. You have to trust him. Check the reputation of the selected favourites. What do clients say about the data centre? Do you know the company that manages the datacenter? If you don't know the datacenter's current clients, try Google. Our Prague datacenter meets the infrastructure requirements data centres according to the TIA942/Tier III standard. We have the background and know-how of our parent company Foxconn at our disposal. This enables us to offer our customers a high standard in research, development, production and integration of IT technologies.
Location
The location of the datacenter is not a useless question at all. The location of the datacenter affects both the stability of the connection and the speed of disaster recovery. The closer you are to the datacenter, the better your connection will be. Storing data locally in a known and accessible location has its advantages - we at SafeDX know this. We have chosen a location for our data centre where it is from all the office centres in Prague barely 20 minutes.
Technical support
We recommend to choose datacentres with round-the-clock technical support. In today's digital age, you can't control when your home office employees work (I'm sure you also have "owls" on your team who are most productive around midnight)... and you certainly have no control over when cyber attackers "sleep" on you. A data center with 24/7 technical support will be ready to support you through any challenge 24/7.
Scalability
Think ahead. If you believe in the future of your business, you probably expect to grow. There will be more clients, more contracts... and more data. Make sure the data centre you choose will be able to to support your expansion. At SafeDX we can flexibly adapt to capacity and space requirements of our customers. In addition to the capacity in our primary data centre in Prague, we also offer geographically redundant services.
Security
We've already talked about security. It's still the alpha and omega for us, even though we saved it for last. Check it out, how the data centre provides both cyber and physical security. Our housing services in a Tier III environment guarantees you high security of your data. We will be happy to talk to you personally about the security of our data center. But we will tell you that we take for granted access limited to authorized persons based on biometric data, protection of servers in lockable PODs with controlled access and multiple protection against power outages, connection failures or fires. In short, we really don't underestimate security.
You want to know how it goes in our Prague datacenter? Contact us for more information. We would be happy to show you how server hosting in our datacenter and pay-as-you-go payment system to minimize the cost of running your own IT infrastructure and you're still snooping on your data security. We'll discuss everything in the context of your business.