Unity IT Services partners with Thinking SAFE™ to protect companies from major data loss

 

Hertfordshire based IT solutions specialist, Unity IT Services, has partnered with Thinking SAFE™ to deliver its SME customers in London and the South East with cost-effective, off-site remote backup solutions.

The company provides all the services of a dedicated IT department, which now includes the Thinking SAFE™ Backup2 off-site data backup product.

Ben Stupples, Managing Director, Unity IT Services, explains: “Protecting the business critical information stored on servers and workstations is one of the most important, yet least considered, challenges facing every business today. As the DTI states, an amazing 70% of companies go out of business after a major data loss.”

“We currently provide IT support to a large number of SMEs and have always recommended tape back up solutions such as Backup Exec by Veritas. We recognised that the market had made significant progression in recent years, and the cost of off-site remote backups had come down considerably, so we were looking to partner with a supplier who could offer this service to our support clients.”

“We looked at a few companies offering similar services but we liked the flexibility and depth of the product from Thinking SAFE™. It is important to us that we are not seen as a small fish in a big pond and we felt that we could develop an excellent working relationship with them which has been proved thus far. We also felt that we were partnering with a like-minded company who would grow as we grow and were not afraid to think outside the box to find a solution to problems. The benefits to our customers are improved data retrieval, more reliability, less hassle and better retention!”

Ed Jones, Director, Thinking SAFE™, comments: “All companies today are vulnerable to the catastrophic effects of lost data. Only one third of businesses in the UK store their backups offsite and as a result most companies who have suffered computer related fire or theft have also lost their backup. Even if you did manage to successfully take a backup, recent figures show that nearly 42% of all tape restores fail. Working together with a partner such as Unity IT Services, we can help more and more companies – large and small – to protect their company assets through easy and effective data protection and recovery.”


About Thinking SAFE™ Limited

Thinking SAFE™ provides data backup, recovery and archive solutions for enterprise data management that ensures high-performance data protection, and maximum data availability. The Thinking SAFE™ platform manages the data during its lifetime through integrated backup/recovery, archiving and replication. Information about Thinking SAFE™ is available by calling 0870 0853 200 or at www.thinkingsafe.com. Thinking SAFE™ company headquarters is located in the SEEDA Enterprise Hub on the campus of The Royal Holloway University of London, England


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Katie King
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For further information on Thinking SAFE™ visit http://www.thinkingsafe.com

For further information on Unity visit http://www.unityitservices.co.uk

Or www.unity-group.com