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The consulting company, Newell & Associates had a disk drive crash
six months after it began operations. Even with a fully backed
up system on a tape drive, it took over five days to get a critical
computer system restored. Newell & Associates spent several months investigating
all the alternatives to manual backup systems. Finally, they decided
that the best backup system is the one used by Fortune 500 companies like IBM,
GE and Amoco.
Most fortune 500 companies use the same basic techniques to protect
their data:
- All their systems are completely automated
- The data is copied to a central location
- Highly skilled technicians implement and monitor the process
Newell & Associates then spent several more months searching for
the right hardware and software to enable this backup system to
work for a typical company without a high overhead.
In the middle of 1999, they employed a remote online backup system that
would allow Newell & Associates to set up a centralized backup server so that
its customers could utilize a highly effective backup system with no overhead.
This is the same type of system that Northwest Technical is offering to
businesses like yours all over the country.
Here are some of the advantages to a typical business:
- All files are protected by state-of-the-art encryption. Only the
customer can retrieve their files
- Completely automated off-site protection
- Fast online recovery of any version of any protected file
- Easy installation and setup
- Only an internet connection is required, eliminating the need
for expensive backup equipment and media
- The backup server is monitored by highly skilled technicians whose
job is to make sure the backups are performed properly
This is how it works....
Northwest Technical operates an off-site storage facility for the user's data.
At the facility, an account is maintained for each user. Each account is
protected by a password known only to the user!
The electronic vault system is set up so that at a preset time, usually
late at night, the client's computer automatically wakes up and prepares
its data for backup. It determines which files have been modified since
the last backup, compresses them and encrypts them for security. When the
data is ready, the computer uses its modem or Internet connection to contact
our Servers and transmit the data.
Northwest Technical's Remote Backup Server receives, verifies and stores the data.
The next morning the backup is transferred to a tape and placed in a fireproof safe
for permanent safe keeping. Clients can rest assured that their data is safe, because
it is stored off-site.
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