Secure Data Storage

In today's computerised workplace it is extremely important to your business's longterm survival to have your valuable data back-ups stored off-site in a secure location.

As part of our professional security services Amalgamated Cash Services offers a Secure Data Storage Service. This includes regular secure pick-up and delivery when required of your data backups. Your valuable data is stored in purpose built DATA Safes located within our CIT facility, all safes have a 2 hour fire rating.

We can accommodate overnight or long term vaulting of your company's data backups.

Some sound reasons for maintaining secure offsite data back-ups courtesy of Boston Computing network:

• 6% of all PCs will suffer an episode of data loss in any given year.
• 31% of PC users have lost all of their files due to events beyond their control.
• 34% of companies fail to test their tape backups, and of those that do, 77% have found tape back-up failures.
• 60% of companies that lose their data will shut down within 6 months of the disaster.
• 93% of companies that lost their data centre for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster. 50% of businesses that found themselves without data management for this same time period filed for bankruptcy immediately. (National Archives & Records Administration in Washington)
• American business lost more than $7.6 billion as a result of viruses during first six months of 1999. (Research by Computer Economics)
• Companies that aren't able to resume operations within ten days (of a disaster hit) are not likely to survive. (Strategic Research Institute)
• Every week 140,000 hard drives crash in the United States alone.
• Simple drive recovery can cost many thousands of dollars while success is not guaranteed.