Jungle Disk: The Data Guardian of Small Businesses

It is 11 PM on a Saturday night in San Antonio, TX and Bret Piatt is all set to host his weekly show, “Cyber Talk Radio,” on News Radio 1200 WOAI—the local talk radio station. The show airs high-level discussions about technology and cybersecurity trends and makes use of its segments to educate WOAI’s business listeners on how those trends and best practices can be leveraged—a unique, neoteric approach of helping businesses grow. It is Bret and Jungle Disk’s mission to help small businesses experience the benefits of enterprise-level data security solutions. In 2006, Jungle Disk was founded to create one of the first, one-of-a-kind software that offers accessible data backup and enterprise-level storage services to small businesses on the Amazon Cloud. Jungle Disk’s online backup software delivers data protection capabilities to small businesses using cloud computing, creating a much more reliable and consistent service than outdated methods such as tape backup.

Although most businesses focus on managing operations from a technology standpoint to drive efficiency and growth, certain mishaps like natural calamities, hard drive failures, and cyberattacks are not always predictable. Specifically designed for small businesses with 2 to 250 employees, Jungle Disk provides encrypted off-site cloud backup services that give users the option to safely store data in Rackspace or Amazon Web Services. The unique feature of Jungle Disk’s backup solution is its configurable data retention, which automates the entire data retrieval process. “Users can configure their own business data retention policy to dictate how long a previous version of backed up data should be retained and the number of copies to be stored, while adhering to the necessary regulatory requirements of their specific industry,” informs Piatt, president and CEO, Jungle Disk.

But today, backing up data in a remote, cloud storage is only half the battle. The global rise in ‘agents of chaos’ like ransomware, malware, and botnets have made small businesses their soft targets, owing to the lack of resources to fortify their cyber-arsenal.