Keeping your data accessible is as essential for your company as keeping it unaccessible for unauthorized persons. Using a firewall to manage this is good, but not good enough. Having a backup of your data, the data your company needs in order to exist, is extremely important. But it is not enough.

You need to make sure that your data can be used by those, and only those, who are authorized to access it. You need to guarantee privacy -- legaly, financially, morally.

Doing this, optimizes your internal workflows and makes the interactions with your customers and/or suppliers more efficient.

Being able to secure the data of your company, even while the files in question may be on an external computing system, will enable you for all e-commerce "spin-offs".