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Asigra saves data-dependent small business from brink of disaster
Date: Thursday 20 September 2007
Author: phil

How web-site and e-book business Art of Performance's lost data was saved.

Just two weeks ago, web-site and e-book business Art of Performance experienced complete data loss when a local power cut occurred at the moment the server was shutting down for the night, which caused the desktop PC to break down. The system administrator initially contacted the computer manufacturer who gave an estimate of one week for a new system to be uploaded, but could offer no remedy in view of the lost data. However, with the Asigra-based backup software already in place as part of the overall IT support service from Falcon IT, Art of Performance had a new PC installed and was able to access all of its lost data within eight hours of the power cut. 

Before Falcon IT installed Asigra's Televaulting software five months ago, using the services of Smartways, only the critical data was occasionally being backed up manually using easily corruptible rewritable CDs, which would have offered little protection in the event of a system breakdown such as this. Switching to the reliable and cost-effective disk-to-disk online backup and recovery software that carries out a full backup every day of all of the data to an offsite location, proved to be crucial for the survival of a company whose data is the lifeblood of its business.

Roy Palmer, Director of Art of Performance Website Services commented on Smartways' TouchPoint online backup and recovery service, deployed by Falcon IT: "The monthly fee for the backup is negligible for the business return – the security of our valuable marketing collateral, e-zines, invoices and video files is reliably ensured now that we have the backup and restore technology in place."

The unique agentless structure of the Asigra software provides Smartways and Falcon IT with a simple pay-as-you-go licensing system, so that they only pay for the accumulative amount of compressed data their customers need to back up and vault offsite. This allows the service providers to tailor their billing scales for customers depending on the capacity of data storage required, regardless of how many users there are and without any hardware or software licence costs.

For more information, simply go on to the Asigra web-site in the first instance.