Virtual Security

• While no server is every fully impervious to an attack by hackers, the security infrastructure employed by data storage companies will far exceed what your company can set up. Because these companies rely on successfully protecting data, they use advanced antivirus and firewall software, in addition to skilled technical experts, to keep the data from being hacked.
  
  

Accessible

• A key benefit to storing data online is that it's accessible regardless of where you're physically located. Storing a file on your work computer, by way of contrast, is convenient if you're at work, but not ideal if you are traveling. With online data storage, you can access your information from any computer located virtually anywhere.
  
  

Physical Security

• Having your data stored away from your office is ideal for a few reasons. If you're in a competitive business, it would be easy for a competitor to break into your business and steal your files or have an unhappy employee sell the files to another company. This issue is far less likely to happen if your data is stored at a secure, third-party location.
  
  

Savings

• Though using a data storage company will cost your business money, it may provide savings compared with you having to store the data yourself. If you chose to store your own data, you'd have to likely buy extensive servers, cooling for the room to store them, advanced antivirus software and technicians to set up the entire infrastructure. If you're a small business, this may not be feasible.