Have you ever had this sinking feeling in your stomach when you lost something valuable like your wallet or your phone? The exact same feeling occurs when you realise you have just lost your valuable digital data.

Many companies are making the move to cloud-based services such as Office 365 or Google Drive. It allows for automatic updates and increased productivity through ‘anywhere access’ and more efficient budget management.

Data is becoming more imperative than ever before, with businesses relying on data to make high-level decisions and run daily operations. Losing data can have a huge negative impact on your business, not only on profit loss from downtime but also on the image and brand of your company.

There is a growing assumption that cloud storage and cloud backup are the same thing. However, cloud storage sites such as Dropbox, Box, Google Drive and One Drive, are not backup solutions – so should not be relied upon to work perfectly or to protect your data if a disaster was to strike....