Scottish SMEs now Thinking Safe through VirtuousIT
Scottish IT provider, VirtuousIT, has partnered with industry specialist Thinking SAFE™, a Surrey Enterprise Hub company, to deliver an affordable disaster recovery solution to its SME customers. Based at the Royal Holloway University of London Enterprise Centre in Egham, Thinking SAFE™ provides data backup, recovery and archive solutions for enterprise data management that ensures high-performance data protection, and maximum data availability.
Based near Edinburgh, VirtuousIT will offer customers a solution based on RecoveryShield™ from Thinking SAFE™ which delivers improved availability of the critical business systems distributed across organisations. Whether they are located in the data centre or the remote offices, RecoveryShield™ is designed to meet the recovery objectives of the 21st century business, provide continuous data protection and deliver higher availability of data and systems.
Bill McMillan, VirtuousIT, explains: “Data is now critical to every business, so business continuity is high on their list of priorities. Thankfully, the falling cost of hardware, software and telecoms services has made disaster recovery affordable for SMEs. In the event of a disaster, we offer our customers a free server loan, free restore and build, and the use of hot desking at our offices.”
“When looking for a partner, we considered a few companies offering similar services to Thinking SAFE™ but none could match their impressive installed base and their high level of customer focus.”
Roger Huckerby, Director, Thinking SAFE™, comments: “In the twenty first century, IT is at the heart of every business which means that no one is immune to the catastrophic effects of lost data. Too many companies still store their backups onsite and have to face the consequences when disaster strikes.”
“Working together with VirtuousIT, we can help more companies across Scotland to protect their company assets through easy and effective data protection and recovery.”
RecoveryShield™ is a disk based online backup, recovery and archive solution that delivers corporate level data availability for all sizes of business. It provides peace of mind as it offers dramatic improvements to their IT disaster recovery position, automated backup and recovery environment, and greater reliability and resilience, as well as other features.
Commenting, Joanne Jenkins of the Surrey Enterprise Hub, said: "Thinking SAFE is a long-standing Hub client company and this latest partnership is another illustration of just how far they have come as a business since their early days. Long before data storage and back-up became a mainstream solution, the team at Thinking SAFE was thinking innovatively about how to provide services which so many businesses now need."
Contact: Ally Charles
Email: allycharles@seeda.co.uk
Publish Date: 21st October 2008
