Suncoast Business Technologies Provides

Data Backup and Recovery

Where do you keep your backups? What happens if your business burns down tonight?

According to the Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal, over half of all companies that suffer a catastrophic data failure go out of business almost immediately. Over 90% of companies that suffer data loss close doors within three years.

Disaster Recovery (DR) is the process, policies and procedures of restoring operations critical to the resumption of business after a natural or human-induced disaster.

Every business and organization can experience a serious incident which can prevent it from continuing normal operations. This can happen any day at any time. The potential causes are many and varied: flood, fire, hurricane, explosion, theft, computer malfunction, accident, grievous act... the list is endless. Every company has its own threshold for pain when it comes to computer network downtime. For one company it might be a single day or two without their mission critical server is acceptable and for others one minute is unacceptable.

Disaster preparedness can range from having a simple method for the backup of your data such as a tape or USB drive to having a highly available-fault tolerant system in place to avoid downtime altogether. It all comes down to your unique business needs, your budget requirements and your threshold for risk/pain.

Goals

SBT educates IT professionals and business owners about creating bullet proof disaster recovery plans through one-on-one meetings and seminars. Over the years we have noticed an alarming reality: On average of 100 seminar participants when asked about how many of them have a DR plan in place, most of them (95%) raise their hands. When asked how many of them have actually tested the DR plan only about 30% remain and when we ask how many of the remaining hands being held up have had a "successful test", only about 1-5% say they have. That is alarming.

We at Suncoast Business Technologies realize that DR can be complicated. Our approach to DR is simple in that we follow a proven methodology of risk evaluation and budgeting.

We partner with market leaders such as HP, VMware, Microsoft, Nuvox and many more to provide the technology to support the solutions we design for our customers.

Most disasters are not catastrophic in nature. In fact, a typical "disaster" most companies experience is failed hardware. Don't let a disaster shape your business by not preparing for it.

Features

Off-site Backups Will...

• Be safe in multiple geographically redundant data centers
• Work on any PC in your office: Windows, Linux or Mac
• Work with servers and older PCs
• Backup changes only, saving bandwidth and time
• Store multiple versions for easy archive retrieval
• Encrypt data as it travels to the backup server
• Encrypt data on the backup server
• Let you restore files to a different PC

Government Compliance

Off-site backups help you comply with government regulations for data-retention and secure storage.