Business Backup
- Medical: Pharmacy

Backupanytime provide online data backup for a large number of pharmacists. Weather your business is a single owner managed outlet or a group of I.P.O.S. locum supported outlets, backupanytime have the experience and supporting client references to demonstrate a level of suitability beyond the competition. Our success with providing online backup for pharmacists stems from the suitability of our system, strength of our network and the support offered by our technicians. Our pharmacist key account manager, Shane Munnelly can assist you in determining the optimum implementation for your business. Shane's' experience in providing online backup for pharmacists ensures you are not part of a vanguard when upgrading your data backup to online status. Instead you are availing of a quality, tested service currently used successfully by your peers.

So, what is the difference between pharmacist data backup requirements and that of general business?
Virtually all companies today carry a certain amount of critical information. This is much more so in the case of a Pharmacy. Every pharmacy today stores data pertaining to confidential client medications, industry information, supplier prices, pharmacy financials and varying levels of public to extremely private information by email.

What has been the impact of technology advances?
The vulnerability of data has risen with the dependence upon automation. This needs to be (and can be) managed. Many pharmacists today still use a tape system or U.S.B. based device to backup data. In essence, many pharmacies have not used any of the advances in technology to improve their data backup system. This increased risk due to greater general dependence on computer systems coupled with the increased prevelance of malware, virus and hacker attacks leaves a void which needs to be addressed.

What is the solution?
There is no singular solution. A short basic list would be as follows.

Ensure all computers have valid anti virus licences.
If you are unsure of this, the anti virus page of this web site can offer guidance.

Ensure you have a single hardware firewall or uniform software firewalls across all computers.
Microsoft windows xp comes with a reasonably good software firewall as standard. Ensure at the very least that it is enabled.

Formalise a computer policy and procedure list for all management and staff to abide by. Backupanytime offer without prejudice or warranty a free template sample general computer policy and procedure document for pharmacists. Contact Shane Munnelly for your free copy.

General computer house keeping.
Solving computer problems can be complex. Keeping a functional system in order should be simple; run your anti virus software, be careful of the sites visited, avail of anti spam for email and be careful of the emails you open. General house keeping is not a substitute to strict computer policy adherence. They should run in tandem. See pharmacists computer policy and procedure list as per above paragraph.

Data backup
There are some things in life you can do by half and get away with. Data backup is not one of them.
Data backup is strictly a non recursive issue. Investment after the fact (even considerable investment) will rarely have any impact on the problem. Data recovery investment (as against data protection) will at best resolve a singular episode leaving all previous vulnerabilities in place.
If you are using a tape drive, removable hard drive or U.S.B. Device, your data is at far more risk than it need be.

What should you do?
There are two options here.

1. Invest and under utilize.
   Invest heavily in state of the art data centres, servers, software and connectivity. Employ full time I.T. personnel, avail of mass data insurance, purchase ongoing data management training, employ the services of external consultants to advise on new technology adoption on an ongoing basis.
2. Avail of the benefits of the above and pay only for the parts you use.
   Number 1 above is obviously tongue in cheek. It is there to demonstrate what you get from online backup and to show the stark difference between juggling removable hard drives and using online backup.

Backupanytime is Ireland's largest online data backup provider. We offer a quality managed service at affordable rates. We come with excellent long term client references from general business including many pharmacists.

Our system uses the latest encryption and compression methods offering absolute confidentiality and security. We are the only provider in Ireland willing to manually sign off on this. Contact us today and avail of our 14 day no commitment free trial.

Backupanytime, your partnership with data protection.