Online backup solutions provider SafeEvault has launched upgraded versions of its Remote Online Data Backup Solutions and Virtual Business Continuity Network (VBCN) plans.

 

The company’s fully automated remote data and application protection solutions aim to protect small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) from disasters that might cripple physical backup devices.

 

SafeEvault is primarily an information technology service provider. The company provides a virtual business continuity network (VBCN), and claims to be the first to introduce this concept. It offers all the components needed to establish a virtual business continuity/disaster recovery site. That includes data protection and secured virtual mission-critical servers or desktops.

 

Market research firm Gartner (News - Alert) recently estimated that less than one percent of SMBs perform daily backups. Floods in the Midwest and fires in the West this summer have forced many businesses to shut down, either because of data losses or missing backup devices. Many of these businesses relied on tape drives or other hardware-based solutions that left them at a high risk of losing all their mission critical data and applications.

 

According to Pricewaterhouse Coopers, seven out of 10 small firms shut their doors within a year if a major, unrecoverable data loss is experienced.

 

The online data protection solutions facilitate companies to gain access to their data and server applications immediately via the internet during a disaster. With this, companies can be back in business within hours with the help of any computer with internet access, says company, thereby avoiding data losses.  

 

SafeEvault utilizes data encryption for the safety of the company’s data. The encryption key is stored only on the company’s computer and is never transmitted over the Internet or stored on SafeEvault’s servers. Only concerned person have access to the files, not even SafeEvault. Each file is individually encrypted using a unique 128-bit key. All the data is transferred to a fully redundant server and stored in a third redundant secure data center at another physical site.