Is Your Business Safe?

The Most Important Business Insurance You Can Own

A helicopter pilot is flying around a city and fog sets in at the same time his instruments failed. He see's a tall building above, the fog and hovers up to it holding up a sign to the people looking out the skyscraper's windows. "Where am I?" A guy in the tower window scribbled on a small white board and flashed it at the pilot. It said "You are in a helicopter." With that answer, the pilot knew exactly where he was and veered off in the direction of his landing spot. the sign asked. The office workers jotted an answer on a large paper which said

The passenger in the helicopter asked how could he possibly know where he was with that answer! The pilot grinned and said, "Anyone giving such a technically accurate, but othewise meaning less answer had to work for Microsoft. I knew my landing spot was just below their tallest building.

Having data "backed up" is sort of like that answer. It's technically accurate, but likely to be near useless when a disaster occurs and you need that data to be operational so your business can function.

Having your data backed up is a good thing, but it's only part of the solution that will keep your business operational in the event of a disaster, malfunction, or other event that takes your core system out of the picture. The software "plumbing" that connects the data to your business is critically important to recovery, ane restoration of business processes, as well.

Consider this scenario:
A fire (flood, tornado, thief, whatever) takes out your office, destroying your server and the production data on which business depends. No work can be done until that data is put back into a usable form. No problem. You paid the IT consultant to backup your data automatically and store it in the "bunker". The data's safe, right?

Well, yes, but remember the joke...it's technically safe, but really unusable without the server, it's particular settings, the related programs needed, etc. Despite what Dell or HP shows on TV, the physical server box is as dumb as a stick until it's configured for use in YOUR network, and there's no magic wand to make that happen. It takes a great deal of documentation and work to bring your server "back from the dead" with most backup solutions. That's where PartnerSAFE™ really sets itself apart from the pack.

PartnerSAFE™ keeps "snapshots" of your critcal, must-have, server(s), and all the data stored on them, in a device in your office so that if one or more of your servers fail, they can be literally recreated in a matter of a few minutes so that nothing is lost; no time, no data, no money. If a disaster like the recent floods in Tennessee take out your entire building contents, including the local copy, no worries...the data is constantly replicated off-site using the internet. We can have an exact copy of every protected server operational in less than a few hours. Your business keeps right on operating on YOUR familiar systems despite the fact the actual server (and all its buddies in the server room) are no longer of this world. This lets your business continue to operate while the local problems are solved (like getting a new server, re-creating the plumbing, etc.) and then, when the disaster is over, we reverse the process to put the virtual copies of your server back into production in your office.

PartnerSAFE™ is the best insurance policy you can ever own for ensuring your business survives the unexpected.

To learn more or to arrange for a no cost consultation to determine how your business is (or can be) protected from unexpected technical disruptions, give us a call...