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Last year’s devastating floods gave an unfortunate yet timely reminder to businesses who hadn’t taken the necessary precautions to safeguard their electronic data.
Scores of firms lost valuable and in some cases irreplaceable information stored on computers as flood waters swept through offices and business premises.
Those who had invested in off-site back up systems were the more fortunate ones, even those whose premises were badly affected by the water.
One company that was flooded was Chesterfield Powermade Designs, the makers of Solo electric golf trolleys.
The office was awash on the afternoon of June 25 and it was two days before the emergency services allowed staff to return. Inside they found stock and equipment, including computers, swimming in flood water.
Fortunately the company are clients of Sheffield-based BackUp4Business, which had stored all of Powermade’s information on its four secure computer servers in Manchester and Sheffield. What could have been a complete disaster was averted by Powermade’s forward thinking. A new computer was bought and the firm’s complete set of data was restored from BackUp4Business’ servers in a matter of hours.
Automatic data backup is a simple, secure and cost effective method of ensuring that computer generated information is copied to a secure place for easy and speedy retrieval.
Companies using BackUp4Business know that human error is taken out of the copying process and that 128bit encryption ensures security.
It’s not just floods that present potential data loss situations. Companies who don’t back up data, or leave copies in the office, even in a safe, are open to loss from fire, theft, viruses, hard drive malfunctions and the actions of malicious members of staff.
BackUP4Business was set up two years ago by Sheffield businessman Morton Bell, who previously had a document storage business serving law, insurance and accountancy firms.
He realised the need for the secure back up of computer generated information and introduced his new business using systems previously used only by top London banks.
Morton said: “There are other ways of backing up electronic data but our online service is far more reliable and extremely cost effective with clients only paying for the volume of data stored. Once a client signs up they can back up whatever data they like and we advise them to do it on a daily basis. This system takes the human error out of backing up data which is done automatically off-site.
The service is ideal for any company’s business contingency planning and disaster recovery strategies.
BackUp4Business will visit new customers and back up all required files onto an external hard drive before uploading them to the servers, saving companies the time required to move large amounts of data. Once initial installation is complete, the daily update done online by the client in their own office is easy and speedy.
BackUp4Business has a national client portfolio, but all staff are Sheffield based and the company offers telephone technical support. The website also has a full user guide and video tutorials.
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I have been using the services of backup4business for around 12 months and have been absolutely delighted with the programme, the process and the support.
During the 12 months I have replaced both my desk top and notebook computers and rather than having to back everything up on disc as I used to I can now do a download from the backup4 business site and within a very short time I am up and running.
I used to work for a large company where everything was backed up securely and I got to trust this system, backup4 business gives me the same sense of security. The only difference is that the backup4business support staff are much more helpful, accessible and better communicators than the IT department used to be in my old company!
One phone call gets me speaking to a real live person who knows what he is doing, calls back when he says he will and gets everything sorted. The support team have been exceptional in thier support as I am not at all IT savvy.
Backup4business is worth every penny for peace of mind.
Thank you for providing this excellent service
- Elizabeth Kidd
Onside Law
As a fast growing and professional law firm in London, our data is of paramount importance both to the successful future of our business and the success of our clients.
We were considering installing a Tape Backup solution to protect our business, however we have found that the security and service offered by Backup4Business is far better and we haven’t looked back since.
We couldn’t recommend it more highly for customer support, value for money and security!
- J. Singer, Partner.
