Online Backup for Branch Offices, Small Offices and Retail

Branch Office, Small Office, Retail

Small offices, branch offices and retail establishments do not have the resources of a larger organisation.  Often physically separate from head office or being independent establishments, there is rarely a dedicated person for IT support and certainly no one dedicated to tape backups.

Yet the data produced is vital to business operations and continuity - perhaps including sales records, proposals, projects or local accounts data. 

Branch offices are difficult to support centrally as they cannot always be relied upon to perform regular tape backups in a strict manor.  And why should they? - they have more important business tasks to be getting on with.  This results in a significant support overhead for central IT - helping users at remote locations follow best-practice procedures or simply helping them recover lost files from tape. 

Online Backup Business Benefits

Online backup provides a hassle-free, reliable and effective way of dealing with the backup challenge.

Online backup ensures:

• No lost productivity in case of data loss - because business records can be viewed and retrieved instantly without IT support.
• Reduced business insurance fees because of the additional protection provided to business records and the the reduced risk of litigation.
• Peace-of-mind knowing that office data is always backed up and recoverable in a fast, secure and hassle-free way.

Plus for those that support remote locations:

• Ensure that backups happen daily and that staff are not wasting valuable productive time managing backups or chasing lost data.
• Significantly reduce the support overheads of protecting remote data by automating the process, storing data offsite and allowing simple, fast local data restores.
• Share key files between remote office and a central location using the in-built account sharing features of online backup.
• Take advantage of broad band availability to backup locally, thus reducing demands on corporate networks.
• Ensure employee data is securely backed up and available even after staff move on.
• Protect MS Outlook and other key Office documents with one system.

Backup Direct™ Services

Our services are available for laptops, PCs and files servers.  Our PC packages can backup from 500MB through to 30GB per machine and our file server packages cover from 10GB through to 100GB per machine.  This allows our service to work effectively on individual PCs, peer-to-peer networks and office servers.

You can subscribe to our services on a machine by machine basis paying for what you need as you need it.  Or you can take a business solution, meaning one single fixed monthly fee.  You can transfer usage from machine to machine or person to person as your organisation evolves.

Remember also, that upgrades are free.  So there is no need to purchase any more capacity than you need today - our service will expand as your needs do.

What Next?

Our online backup is secure, simple and affordable.  If you are not sure what to do next, here are a few options:

Try our service for free and see how effective online backup can be.  You can download the fully working software here; the installation takes only five minutes even for a non-technical person.  Within ten minutes you can be backing up.

Or, if you would like to know more, then call one of our advisers on 0800 0 789 437.  They will be happy to discuss your particular requirements, explain in more detail how the process works and provide larger capacity trial software if you would like to backup all your data.