Data Disasters - it shouldn't be so funny

I was talking to an accountant today about the rather superb security model that one of my company's SaaS solutions provides.  Sadly, she admitted that, as a sole practioner, although her systems are regularly backed up, the copies are only stored at her house, and so if a fire struck, apart from the personal tragedy, her business would be deep in it.  Sadly this is too common a story, and there are plenty of small, or even medium size businesses who don't have a good strategy in place - see UK Small Businesses risking disaster.  Our SaaS solution works from a secure data centre near Amsterdam, has the data backed off and put in a secure fireproof safe every 6 hours, and once every 24 hours the data is encrypted and transmitted to 2 separate locations in the USA - the kind of superb, high end recovery solution you get from the 1:many economies of scale provided by the SaaS model.

But I'm surprised that there isn't a general web based backup solution aimed at the small business and SOHO type user that is taking the market by storm.  I've seen services, tried them, but then been frustrated by the results.  I can't understand why there isn't more noise on this topic.  On a brighter note, I spotted this PR from Ontrack Data Recovery with their annual Top Ten list of the strangest and funniest computer mishaps in 2005.  I was particularly taken by the poor woman dropping the clay pot and almost losing 5 years of work on her book, but I'm not so sure about the cockroaches!
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