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The 2011 “October Surprise” snowstorm throughout the northeast United States the weekend before Halloween brought from an inch to as much as two and a half feet of snow, coupled with winds along the New England coastline up to 60 miles per hour. The record-breaking weather left an estimated three million homes and businesses without power.
 
However, most businesses that operate in national and global marketplaces had to continue running. For IT, it meant continued requirements for accessing critical data from databases, mail and file servers, as well as insuring ongoing employee access to their online business files.
 
For many, it could be extremely hard to accomplish these tasks, due to power outages and hazardous travel conditions, when a lot of people couldn’t get to work — and the IT infrastructure, including primary and secondary datacenters, was often down due to lost power.
 
Even if there were backup copies of data stored on tapes, external disks or USBs, it could be very difficult to obtain them, and almost impossible to restore the data when the datacenters are down.
 
Online data backup and recovery services, such as Zetta, help keep businesses running even during such extreme weather conditions by providing IT and other employees with secure, controlled access to both server and desktop backup data when weather conditions have made getting to the office — or even working from home — not an option.
 
Company employees can access and retrieve their backup files from any location with power and Internet connection using just a web browser, even with the datacenters being down and IT managers being unavailable.
 
The server online backup data can be immediately accessed from other regional offices not affected by the snowstorm. And once the power is restored, the data can be quickly retrieved to primary and secondary datacenters, eliminating the risk of data loss occurring during the outage.
 
Zetta’s customers indicate that online data backup and retrieve solutions help them keep their businesses going and significantly reduce the impact from snowstorms and power outages.
 
To learn more about Zetta secure online backup service, click here.

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