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REDUCING IT COSTS FOR SMEs

ORGANISE YOUR DATA

Where is your company’s data stored? It’s all the rage to push data up into the cloud and to make it someone else’s problem. However, this is rarely the real outcome. While I would accept that a well-run data centre is likely to be more robust than a tired Dell desktop computer hiding under the junior IT employee’s desk, it’s simply your data in someone else’s computer.

Don’t get me wrong. Cloud services have their places, especially for bulk offline storage of data. But I prefer to run a pair of Synology NAS boxes: one as primary storage, the other as secondary storage, placed as far apart as possible and preferably in a separate building. Then use the built-in

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