Almost one in three small to medium-sized UK businesses do not safeguard their company data against loss, theft or corruption.

Every single piece of data that arrives into and leaves your business – especially via email and the Internet – absolutely, positively MUST be protected against viruses and unified threats.

Various reasons have been cited, including a perceived lack of security in remote data protection and an assumed complexity in the process, however making sure your data is protected and secured is arguably the most vital aspect of your entire IT infrastructure.

If you lost key data – contracts, orders, invoices or payroll – as a result of fire, flooding, theft or corruption, how quickly will it take your business to fully recover, both financially and operationally – that’s if it ever can fully recover?

ITbuilder provides scalable, secure and reliable remote data back up and disaster recovery services, including plans and procedures for optimal business continuity, that are fully in tune with the needs and requirements of all commercial, forward-thinking businesses who rely heavily if not totally on their IT infrastructure –

•    24-hour remote monitoring by a dedicated account manager

•    Geographically separate data centres outside of the M25 with world-class security

•    All major operating systems supported including Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris & BSD

•    Fully scalable with no upper storage limits enabling future business expansion

•    All email and database formats supported including SQL, Exchange, Lotus Notes and Novell

•    Exceptionally price competitive offering real time value for money

If you can’t access either your premises or your servers, ITbuilder gives you peace of mind knowing that the lifeblood of your business – your data and records – are safe. Your downtime is kept to an absolute minimum and with as little disruption and stress as possible both to you and, most importantly, your clients, suppliers and shareholders.

Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

A month, a week or even a single day without email or access to important business data can severely damage even the smallest business and it’s your reaction to potentially crippling data loss that can often mean the difference between success and failure.

There’s no doubting how fundamental email, the Internet and computing in general are to your organisation, yet it remains astonishing how many business owners don’t have a cohesive plan of action in place if a catastrophic event takes your IT systems out of action for any sustained period of time. Additionally, there are more and more businesses that will insist on proof that you’ve made safeguards before entering into commercial agreements with you.

For years, every large corporation you can think of has invested millions of pounds in Disaster Recovery plans, keeping clones of server hardware in remote data centres and renting empty office suites to ensure business continuity following a catastrophic event. Now that SMEs are as reliant on IT as everyone else, it has become essential to invest time and money in ensuring your business can carry on should the worst-case scenario happen.

ITbuilder’s answer to this problem is both cost-effective and so easy to implement, even the smallest business can have a Disaster Recovery plan on which it can rely.

Using new technology known as ‘virtualisation’, we are able to make exact copies of your server systems that are then transported to a ‘tenant’ server at an offsite hosting facility on which they remain until required.

Combining this ‘virtualisation’ with your remote data back-up that is installed on your live servers making daily backups of your business data to the same hosting facility, we will hold at any one time an exact replica of your business servers and data at our secure hosting facility.

In the event of a ‘disaster’ at your business premises, we are able to start-up the virtualised ‘copies’ of your systems on the tenant server and restore your data to the last good back-up set, usually only hours old. Knowing just how vital your IT systems have become to your business, can you afford not to have a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plan firmly in place?

For more information and to speak to an ITbuilder about protecting your most vital business asset, please contact us today.